Ellen Allien's "Sool" a Let Down
This Tuesday, Ellen Allien relased her fourth album, "Sool". Although it is an electronic album, it is not exactly what you would expect from this German Goddess of DJing. It is an extremely dark and minimalist journey ranging from songs consisting of street and diner background sounds with barely any beat or instrumental music ("Einsteigen"), to songs with disparate vocals and weird whistling tones ("Elphine"), to tracks with pulsating bass and space noises ("Its"). This is by no means a dance album. You won't be hearing this in a club any time soon. For those fans of her earlier work and her collaboration with Apparat, this will be a huge disappointment.
It seems that she is trying to create an album of soundscapes. Although each track does transport the listener to a unique atmosphere of sound and, I hesitate to say it, music, I'm not sure that it accomplishes anything. Truly successful albums of this kind carry listeners to another world and manipulate their emotional state. "Sool" fails to affect the listeners emotions in any way other than perhaps, at best, slight boredom and, at worst, minor irritation.
Although there is nothing outright bad about this album, it is certainly more of an acquired taste even for veterans of the electronic music scene.
Hear Ellen Allien - Its
taken from "Sool". Buy it on iTunes or Amazon.
Labels: ellen allien, review, sool
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