Sack and Blumm - Returns (2009)

Genre : Indie,Electronica,Jazz,Acoustic,Folk,Experimental F.S BLUMM!!
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Tracklist

01.dong dewgong 0
02.sparkman smeargle
03.count bee three
04.dragonball fall
05.bioshock superfrog
06.regirock skibobknob
07.lord led lyn
08.nana mc madden
09.swablu brew
10.quakecake snake
11.quenn cootie
12.free butterfree
13.master nosepass
14.pikachu backhand
15.super bro mario
16.railcar akira
17.toe naruto
18.skitty flu blaster
19.mac grumpig
20.psyduck moon
21.ho oh belgium
22.slow surskit
23.duke beedrill

heres something vaguely menacing about Sack & Blumm Returns as an album title, but this album is anything but ominous. Filled with sketches, interludes and playful electronics, this latest
outing from long-term cohorts F.S. Blumm and Harald Sack Ziegler exudes a certain amount of spontaneity and fun - perhaps due in part to the fact that this album was constructed with the two collaborators sat side-by-side, a technique far-removed from the long distance
exchange of 2003s Kind Kind, which involved a back and forth of musical letters.

You get the impression that Returns could be enjoyed just as much if the tracks were all
shuffled up, such is the erratic, ADD-afflicted tone of the sequencing. Twelve-second electronic doodles jostle with melancholic, jazzy compositions for your attention, and the
duo throw the full breadth of their creative energies into the mix: youll hear miniaturised
gems like Master Nosepass in one instance (combining sorrowful horns, banjo and vinyl
crackle) only for the next moment to bring programmed drums and thoughtful acousto-electric dialogues to the forefront (Pikachu Backhand).

This is an album that adventurously blends folk, electronica, jazz all together in an unruly whirlpool of ideas, sometimes producing results thatll make you chuckle (Bio Shock Superfrog) while at others tapping into something sincerely moving and poignant (Ho Oh Belgium). Lovely.