Here Comes Love
Superpitcher
(Kompakt Records)
Reported Thursday, April 22 2004
Courtesy of Jonty_Adderley @ www.skrufff.com
Though Superpitcher mainman Axel hails from Cologne Germany and runs a club night with acclaimed electro house type Michael Meyer, the casual listener to his debut album Here Comes Love could easily mistake him for French, certainly if they're keen fans of Daft Punk and Air.
Because the record oscillates wildly between the two, reflecting both Air's breathy down to Earth melancholic vocals and Daft Punk's disco tinged house beats throughout.
Opening track People and follow up People both kick in with relatively uptempo grooves, though by Sad Boys, Axel's whispering vocals and on odd synth riff have replaced the handclap style beats and shifted the mood distinctly downwards. Traume slides even further down the back of the couch, it's torch-song style vocals delivered in German by Brit singer Charlotte Roche (apparently a TV presenter on Germany's MTV equivalent Viva.)
Hotly tipped (alongside the label releasing it; Kompakt) Axel puts just one foot wrong, with his a somewhat dodgy cover of much over-exposed jazz standard Fever. However, he more than makes up for it with closing track Even Angels (make mistakes) an enticing moving late night tale that stretches out smoothly before veering off in an achingly beautiful atmospheric conclusion of subliminal beauty.
Here Comes Love is out in May.
http://www.kompakt-net.de
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