Lock up your smiles for we are, once again, diving deep into the shadows with some despair driven guitars for company and it is therefore time to direct your ears towards the self-titled album by Keine Angst Im Dunkeln.
Keine Angst Im Dunkeln – a musical vehicle for Denis Wanic, the guitarist from underground faves SUIR – is on a power chord powered journey from somewhere to sunset and, with some almost post punk angularity keeping him company, these six songs reverberate with hit until the mirror breaks angst as if expressing some externalised desire to communicate discontent and torment. Certainly, this album generates enough in the way of intensity to make you question your listening choices and, despite veering without warning into grunge territory with “Almost Anything”, the result of this six stringed maelstrom has, when played at suitably excessive volume, an almost cathartic effect.
As is often the case with albums like this, the artist’s intent is open to interpretation. Is this mere art rock pretension in a six pack or is it something altogether more personal? Once thing is for certain, in the darkness there is no fear.