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.
Genre:
Electronic
Label:
Marionette
Reviewed:
April 25, 2017
Taken from the Swiss electronic musician’s new EP