Alter Ego - Why Not?!

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  • As always, Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke's long-lived and mythic Alter Ego project is looking to make an impact, this time with a one-sided, white vinyl single ‘Why Not?!’ issued on their own Klang imprint. It comes immediately before the release of something more substantial (a new album) so won't be around in the shops for long. ‘Why Not?’ kicks off with a trademark Alter Ego blast of swaggering 4/4 that feasts obscenely off a fleshy and succulent bottom end. Its as sleazy as you like, but the filthy muck of sounds and the white knuckle drive are missing this time. The melodic dressing is a mixture of tight arpeggios borrowed from the minimal techno toolkit alternating with neat yet hysterical sirens stretched and snapped back over flashes of hand claps and bombastic percussion. The impression is of a portly would-be-Romeo dressed in loud corduroy peering at his own reflection in a sex shop window. Which is to say that ‘Why Not?!’ is entertaining, but overall more comic and without the edge of heroism or danger that elevated tracks such as 'Rocker' and 'Transphormer'. Perhaps it just doesn’t seem as threatening sitting alongside such a vast body of good work? Overall, 'Why Not?!' won't change your world, but it will make you smile, and rest assured you're going to be hearing it played out.
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