Ulrich Schnauss — Goodbye

Germany's Ulrich Schnauss' ability to create mildly intense and lush electronic songs without any trace of danceable or thump-inducing beats is a wonder. Then again, Air also pull the same thing off and at least they're sort of interesting. Goodbye is like Enya's saccharine new age music slowly soaked in honey, but not the delicious clear variety, more the mangled, crumb-infested shit that's almost not worth putting on toast. The blurry album flows in and out with relaxing massage parlour-styled synth lines and minimal whispery vocals. Rhythm is occasionally added to the formula, like on the — I'm throwing up a bit as I write and listen to this — Coldplay "Clocks"-sounding "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow." When the beats kick in, the record sounds even more ethereal, dated and simplistic.

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