Violence makes music against looking the other way and destructive craziness with unbroken intensity.
© Niklas Soestmeyer
Violence keeps moving. Their debut album “Paradies”, which was released in 2021 – after the band had actually announced that they would not make any albums – was accurate, inspiring and overwhelming. The force of the content made me miss what was happening musically here. What was brought out here in song form in a new way for violence – and how danceable it ultimately was.
“Doppeldenk” continues along this path, precisely because it is partly different. Created after a phase of several recording sessions that were discarded and attempts to develop something that you are happy with, “Doppeldenk” is a concentrated, dense album that was most recently aptly assigned the Wut-Wave-Sensation label. “Schwarz Schwarz”, the opener, surprises with a synth line reminiscent of Daft Punk and has excellent Patrick Wagner lyrics, which culminate after many pithy lines in the refrain “I see the world black black”. There is a number in the middle of the album called “A solar storm rages over us” that – at least in the context of the band – is an accessible pop hit complete with saxophone.
Identify hopelessness
Other tracks clearly address the atrocities of war and chains of command or the hopelessness of drug addiction. “Trans,” in turn, is part of the violently written soundtrack for Paul Poet’s new film “The Soldier Monika.” A currently productive collaboration. And at the end, in “Ne ne, alles gut” over almost relaxed Kraut post-rock, a lot of stupid rules from parents and other know-it-alls are settled. Jasmin Rilke, Helen Henfling and Patrick Wagner have created a great album with “Doppeldenk”. It was to be expected that they gave themselves just as little to themselves as they did to the listeners.
Violence “doublethink”
Violence’s album “Doppeldenk” was released on October 4th by Clouds Hill. They can be seen live on December 5th in the Arena in Vienna.
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