Viennese musician Wolfgang Möstl comes from ‘Killed by 9V Batteries’ – the Austrian indie rock band – founded in 2002 – and best known for their 2011 album ‘The Crux’.
Their singer / guitarist and ‘lead creative’ – Möstl – then went on to play guitar with ‘The Sex Jams’ and also continued to play with his own cryptic experimental pop experiment ‘Mile Me Deaf’.
Although not strictly a band (‘Mile Me Deaf’ is Möstl’s collection of cool friends) they have, nevertheless, started to tour as a unified project and have already released quality recordings such as ‘Wild at Heart’. This has a solid melodic rock foundation and is fuzzy and infectious, with a lo-fi atmosphere. This song has a dreamy nature, and it contains the kind of richly layered moody packaging that is reminiscent of Beach House.
Möstl and ‘Mile Me Deaf’ release a new EP “BRANDO” in June. The EP features a grinning Leonard Nimoy look-alike on the cover and emphasizes the musical versatility of ‘the Mile Me Deaf’ club.
The five tracks on the recording will charm indie-hungry hearts and lovers of catchy melodies wrapped within bizarre soundscapes.
We listened to the title track ‘BRANDO’. Here’s what we thought:
‘Brando’ is the perfect track for a summer day. You can feel the shingle between your toes. And the smell of salt air, ripe in your nostrils.
The sounds form a grid of sparkling icicle beats, jauntily relaxed rhythms and crisp aromas of vanilla wafers and chocolate flakes. These are surrounded by a lightly strummed guitar.
The lead solo is eccentric, organic, and unreasonably elastic. But the sweet Lennon-esque vocals … with their gentle pastel-coloured attitudes and crystalline tones…. will allow you to sprawl within their softness.
Everything is smooth and efficiently pastiched – without descending to the kitsch. The insistent chorus is slightly wobbly – and almost motherly in attitude – which reminds us of the early work by Lou Reed.
– © Neil Mach May 2013 –
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