Death In June
Operation Hummingbird
[NER]
What an excellent CD!! Only due to the fact that the song titles are a work of genius I'll give you a complete track listing, something I'm not used to do in other cases than compilation-, live-CDs etc.
1. "Gorilla Tactics"
2. "Kapitulation"
3. "Flieger"
4. "The Snows of the Enemy (Little Black Baby)"
5. "Hand Grenades and Olympic Flames"
6. "Winter Eagle"
7. "Let the Wind Catch a Rainbow on Fire"
The lyrics too are fucking brilliant and therefor I'll give you a taste of them as well by quoting the entire track "Gorilla Tactics". The background to this track is the fact that DIJ was banned from playing at a concert in Lausanne, Switzerland due to alleged nazi influences (lyrics and symbols etc.). Well here you have it:
Gorilla Tactics
Through little streets
with little minds
Switzerland
steps out of time
With cuckoo clocks and cuckoo minds
Ku ku ku baby - "Get in line!"
Their banks are filled
with nazi gold
But, Death In June's banned
I've been told
Douglas P's banned
in Lausanne
That fair city in Switzerland
That clean needle in Junkyland
This song is lyrically only topped by the DIJ track "We Said Destroy", Douglas P: s attack on World Serpent Distribution, on the EP with the same name.
Onward to the musical content of this mcd, clocking in around the half-hour mark. Weird and brilliant is a most accurate description. Once again Douglas P collaborates with Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch and as on the album "Take Care and Control" the sound is heavily influenced by classical music, both in sound and instrument vice. The difference is that where TC&C opted for a more straightforward neo-classical approach "Operation Hummingbird" add another dimension to the sound-picture. This dimension was also present on TC&C but on this disc it's more predominant. Here different musical elements are used at the same time together with lots of weird choir-samples and the like. That too was the case with TC&C but here the elements have increased in number, making each track a very complex experience. This album is also heavier and darker in sound and in the production. The tracks also differ a lot in character from the ritualistic "Flieger" with its repetitive keyboard-loop to the dark and calm "The Snows of the Enemy (Little Black Baby)" with its quiet piano like overtones combined with the dark and rhythmic noise surging ominously in the background.
What you instantly note when listening to this record is the total darkness that leavens this release. All the tracks are slow and depressive symphonies reflecting the rotting world we're all living in. Try this all you happy, ignorant bastards and you will learn what this world is all about! This comes highly recommended, though I know that you might go either way with this release due to its high complexity and weirdness. But if this is not to your liking you're simply to ignorant and not dedicated enough to waste any energy on.
© 2001 herr nebelwerfer
1. "Gorilla Tactics"
2. "Kapitulation"
3. "Flieger"
4. "The Snows of the Enemy (Little Black Baby)"
5. "Hand Grenades and Olympic Flames"
6. "Winter Eagle"
7. "Let the Wind Catch a Rainbow on Fire"
The lyrics too are fucking brilliant and therefor I'll give you a taste of them as well by quoting the entire track "Gorilla Tactics". The background to this track is the fact that DIJ was banned from playing at a concert in Lausanne, Switzerland due to alleged nazi influences (lyrics and symbols etc.). Well here you have it:
Gorilla Tactics
Through little streets
with little minds
Switzerland
steps out of time
With cuckoo clocks and cuckoo minds
Ku ku ku baby - "Get in line!"
Their banks are filled
with nazi gold
But, Death In June's banned
I've been told
Douglas P's banned
in Lausanne
That fair city in Switzerland
That clean needle in Junkyland
This song is lyrically only topped by the DIJ track "We Said Destroy", Douglas P: s attack on World Serpent Distribution, on the EP with the same name.
Onward to the musical content of this mcd, clocking in around the half-hour mark. Weird and brilliant is a most accurate description. Once again Douglas P collaborates with Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch and as on the album "Take Care and Control" the sound is heavily influenced by classical music, both in sound and instrument vice. The difference is that where TC&C opted for a more straightforward neo-classical approach "Operation Hummingbird" add another dimension to the sound-picture. This dimension was also present on TC&C but on this disc it's more predominant. Here different musical elements are used at the same time together with lots of weird choir-samples and the like. That too was the case with TC&C but here the elements have increased in number, making each track a very complex experience. This album is also heavier and darker in sound and in the production. The tracks also differ a lot in character from the ritualistic "Flieger" with its repetitive keyboard-loop to the dark and calm "The Snows of the Enemy (Little Black Baby)" with its quiet piano like overtones combined with the dark and rhythmic noise surging ominously in the background.
What you instantly note when listening to this record is the total darkness that leavens this release. All the tracks are slow and depressive symphonies reflecting the rotting world we're all living in. Try this all you happy, ignorant bastards and you will learn what this world is all about! This comes highly recommended, though I know that you might go either way with this release due to its high complexity and weirdness. But if this is not to your liking you're simply to ignorant and not dedicated enough to waste any energy on.
© 2001 herr nebelwerfer