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01. LALI PUNA - Rest Your Head
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02. LALI PUNA - Remember
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03. LALI PUNA - Everything Is Always
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04. LALI PUNA - Our Inventions
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05. LALI PUNA - Move On
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06. LALI PUNA - Safe Tomorrow
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07. LALI PUNA - Future Tense
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08. LALI PUNA - Hostile To Me
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09. LALI PUNA - That Day
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10. LALI PUNA - Out There Featuring Yukihiro Takahashi
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ARTIST
LALI PUNA
TITLE
Our Inventions
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MORR MUSIC
CATALOG #
MORR 098CD
MORR 098CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/27/2010
This is the fourth full-length album by Germany's
Lali Puna
. More than half a decade has elapsed since the release of
Faking The Books
(MORR 044CD/LP), but the band's impact on the climate of electronic rock music remains palpable. Along with sister-group
The Notwist
, this Weilheim quartet have helped map out the musical landscape for modern, experimentally-minded pop music, and
Our Inventions
finds Lali Puna continuing to push the frontiers of their medium. "Rest Your Head" serves as a perfectly poised re-introduction to the band and all they've become. Initiated by waves of glassy pulsations and warm, swelling synths, the song has the feel of a reverse-lullaby -- gently winding its way through reposeful melodies, guided by the welcoming whisper of
Trebeljahr
's vocal until the final third kicks in with drum machine hits. While
Faking The Books
, with its vibrant riffs and extroverted tendencies, had the sound of a record begging to be played live,
Our Inventions
exhibits the hallmarks of an album spun from intensive studio-bound introspection. Two of the most explosive and ebullient songs here -- "Remember" and "Everything Is Always" -- confirm so much of what's special about Lali Puna: all the elements are at once precision-engineered and delivered with absolute heartfelt conviction; perhaps never before have such jubilant pop hooks been so meticulously and fastidiously crafted, yet you can always hear the soul behind these machines. The final song is a collaboration with the
Yellow Magic Orchestra
's
Yukihiro Takahashi
. The version appearing here is an alternate rendering of the track that appeared on Takahashi's
Page By Page
. The sublime, virtuoso electronic arrangements of
Our Inventions
directly lock onto the record's recurrent key themes, depicting a world inundated with technology and consumed by a fixation on progress -- simultaneously passing commentary on this state of affairs and overcoming it. Members:
Valerie Trebeljahr
(keyboards, vocals);
Christoph Brandner
(also of
Tied & Tickled Trio
) (drums);
Christian Heiß
(keyboards);
Markus Acher
(The Notwist) (keyboards).
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