Review: Bismut ‘Ausdauer’

Bismut from The Netherlands might just introduce themselves by whipping their heads forward, but they can deliver metallic rock slabs fit for kings and queens one after another. They offer up a buffet on their newest release Ausdauer. They like their cake and eat yours too. They serve out flying saucers of experimental Stone Age rock that only makes you wonder. Why limit yourself to one label when you can sign to two?

If Bismut were a snake, they just bit me. It’s a saying, and in America, you can promise it means you are as blind as a bat. Their rock is non-lethal but the venom is potent enough that sticks with you for the next couple hours. It stretches up to my veins and enters the bloodstream with a bass line that is robust enough to stretch through a vast canyon.

They’re inhibited in their musical extremities yet have the sonic ability to sweeten up their guitar loops and spin them off into an eternity. Lay Bare Recordings and Spinda Records were destined to collaborate on something in the middle where they met and with Spanish-inspired lullabies released by the Dutch lads. It’s not songs for the deaf, but songs for the decadent. 

a bass line that is robust enough to stretch through a vast canyon…

It’s a grubby business but Bismut can play nice or dirty. It comes out on a blinding yellow 12” vinyl record that will spin us all off into space sorcery. Your turn table will be freshly polished with new age prog rock. It never hurts to have little Karma To Burn and Bismut lying around the vinyl collection. Now that’s made possible and only through the five tracks and forty-minute runtime that makes up Ausdauer. Let the travesty of their guitar-slaying begin!

Label: Lay Bare Recordings | Spinda Records
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Scribed by: Spring ‘The Strutter’ Chase