Brume - Reality is Not Enough 2022 - this starts off slowly and has the feel of old school experimentalism, but then it bubbles, and then boils, into his mind-warping sound collage fuckery; thankfully, he doesn't do short albums - he's never not aggressive with his ideas, but he can be less/more so, and this thing is more aggressive than albums like his 2023 A Treatise on Ethnography - I've had this one set aside for a rainy day for two years now (the cover didn't have me jumping at it), and I almost didn't listen to it today, as I started in the middle of A Treatise before deciding I wanted some new and shiny Brume. I was in the mood for new Tourette too, but oh well, we can't have everything we want. Not many artists come to mind who have maintained this level for 35+ years...arguably, I'd say 40, as he's about to celebrate that ruby anniversary, and I love his initial work too. Funny enough, with the final track, he does look back to his early krautrock appreciations, tapping on the shoulder of Sergius Golowin & The Cosmic Couriers for a little something.
*I say the same damn thing every time I listen to a Brume/Renou album.
