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ULRICH SCHNAUSS - Goodbye
| NME |
| Born in Germany, but now based in London, producer, remixer and all-round genius Ulrich Schnauss makes music as big as the oceans. He unleashes great crashing waves of Cocteau Twins guitars, Slowdive atmospherics and precision-tooled beats that pick you up and throw you around, before depositing you somewhere else entirely - somewhere better and infinitely more beautiful....full text |
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| Lost At Sea magazine |
| The end of a loose trilogy that began with Far Away Trains Passing By, 2007's Goodbye finds German electronica artist Ulrich Schnauss expanding on the ambient-leaning dream-pop of his lauded '03 sophomore outing, A Strangely Isolated Place. Recorded in relative seclusion in Schnauss's hometown of Kiel, the album is literally miles away from a club-oriented Berlin aesthetic, yet its shimmering, shoegazing tracks maintain a subtle techno veneer....full text |
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| Kevchino |
| Ulrich Schnauss has got it tough. His is a fanbase divided—he needs to satisfy those fans of ambient electronica who are still intoxicated by the aesthetic of the sound, and those who demand structures, melodies, and rhythms to keep their attention. Debut effort Far Away Trains Passing By was a gorgeous haze or a soporific drift, an immersive bliss or a dragging blur, featuring nothing memorable at all—or is that kinda the point? 2003 follow-up A Strangely Isolated Place was more involving, frequently rousing in fact, and sometimes enthralling—it satisfied just about everyone who heard it, even the sleepy-headed fans of Far Away Trains who weren’t used to such action and adventure. Schnauss achieved this by making a connection between the elongated ambience of Boards of Canada and the guitar-sourced drones and sweeps of My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. “We don’t sound like them,” Boards’ Michael Sandison once said of MBV, but Schnauss clearly thought they did....full text |
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