Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the second freely downloadable single from the latest album by German cinematic pop duo Sankt Otten.

‘Mein Freund aus Köln’ soars slowly and elegantly across the night sky like a neon bird. The listener is carried along by hypnotic drum patterns, while majestic synth refrains and guitar drones sing sadly and beautifully. As with so much of Sankt Otten’s work there is something brooding underneath the surface of ‘Mein Freund aus Köln’, something always just out of reach. The single is accompanied by the gorgeous previously unreleased track ‘Melancholie fur Millionen’ which rounds out this wonderful package in true style, proving that everything Sankt Otten touch turns to gold.

‘Mein Freund aus Köln’ is taken from Sankt Otten’s fourth album Morgen wieder lustig which is out now through Hidden Shoal Recordings.

“Sankt Otten continue to defy the German Portishead pigeonhole, by cranking up the tempo, veering into a sort of krautrock by way of Four Tet one minute, whirling pop ambience the next, synthy sprawling blissed out prismatic new age the next, over the course of the record slipping back and forth between these various sounds, sometimes melding several at once, a gorgeous, moody sonic journey, from haunting atmospheric darkness, to sun dappled rhythmic mesmer, to spaced out psychedelic synth, to eighties sounding new wave to hushed dreamlike ambience, to creepy slowcore crawl. Awesome stuff.” – Aquarius Records on Morgen wieder lustig

‘Mein Freund aus Köln / Melancholie fur Millionen’ is available now for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store and Bandcamp. Read a full press release here.

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Posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 12:12 am
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