“Dreams Top Rock” in The Wire
Charms Music Clerk, as Cologne based Marcus Schmickler anagrammatises himself on the credits of this third Pluramon album, should not be so quick to hide his lights under a bushel. Pluramon has always been one of the more unpredictable and interesting projects to stem from the fertile jungle of sounds that has been bred in the furtive community of friends centred around Cologne´s A-Musik and Sonig labels for the past 15 years or so. But this album, the first under the Pluramon banner since 1998´s Render Bandits (not counting it´s remix version album Bit Sand Riders), is just about the best avant pop/noise record to emerge from the independent sector since My Bloody Valentine´s Isn´t Anything. … »