Air Cushion Finish

𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙩𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙪 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝘼𝙞𝙧 𝘾𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝’𝙨 𝙁𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙮, 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙟𝙖𝙮𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚’𝙨 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘, 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 “𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧”, 𝙇𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙚𝙘𝙠.
Formed in Berlin 2007, the pairing have previously issued a pair of albums thru hamburg house of weird, Hafenschlamm Rekords, and, at the behest of GY!BE, they recorded this, their 4th album with Thierry Amar at Montreal’s renowned Hotel2Tango studio in 2014.
Flink was the result of those sessions, an immersively psychedelic (sweet, rather than head-frying) world unto themselves, sensitively placing Lippstueck’s flighty vox - which range from Schwitters-esque gibber to avian and ecclesiastical runs - drifting around the centre of a sound sphere pieced together from intricately laced rhythmic mechanisms, reverberant dub basses and insectoid blues.
- There’s no way we’re going to sum it up in words, but for reference it’s worth considering next to the output of My Cat Is An Alien, Eli Keszler or Sculpture.