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Toresch set a few tongues wagging with their 2016 debut album, Essen Fur Alle, so hopes are naturally high for this untitled follow-up. Once again, Detlef Weinrich (ALA Tolouse Low Trax) provides the moody, end-of-days music - think coldwave fused with early industrial and wayward electronica, and you're close - with Viktoria Wehrmeister penning the lyrics and adding half-spoken, half-sung vocals in typically stylish fashion. We're particularly enjoying the almost beat-less, weirdo ambience of "El Fuego" and the attractively angular fuzziness of "Guayabame", a track rich in lolloping tribal percussion and bleak electronics. That said, many may gravitate towards the moody minimal wave hypnotism of "Las Locas" and the rising, end-of-days synth-pop of "Tocar".

Alexis Le-Tan, Juno Recommends Techno, Juno Recommends Experimental, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Doo, Elenacolombi, Malka Tuti