Skip to main content
  • Genre:

    Electronic

  • Label:

    Marionette

  • Reviewed:

    April 25, 2017

Taken from the Swiss electronic musician’s new EP

The Swiss electronic musician Kilchhofer’s “Suckfuell” might be a 30-year-old relic rescued from dusty reel-to-reel tape, or it might come 30 years from today. Its future-past aesthetic is a little like a lenticular image: Considered from one angle, the plucked kalimba and naturalistic handclaps evoke campfire rituals and bearded krautrockers, but glimpsed another way, the vaporous ambient haze suggests the hyperreal atmosphere of a computer simulation. No matter how you cut it, the song, the keystone of a new split EP with the German producer Hainbach, is an entrancing foray into elastic rhythms and tactile textures. Wherever it comes from, it feels both deeply familiar and like a passageway to another world.