Excerpt: “Morgen Wieder Lustig is eleven tracks of widescreen, lush instrumental electronic pop… Some of the tracks, such as the opener ‘Ein Himmel voller Galgen’ are beatless blends of soaring synthesiser and guitar. Others, like the single ‘Lustig, lustig, demain encore lustig’ are sparkling little electro-pop nuggets… this isn’t just all shine and no substance. It’s actually a terrific listen.”
Excerpt: “a noir tweaked cruise controlled cosmic hyper drive, the wide screen panoramic aspects, the motorik purr of crystalline electronic pulses and the precision honed glacially sculptured detailing endow it with a minimalist mesmeric mastery that locates the finite apron strings that exist between the early career work of pioneers Tangerine Dream and Vangelis with the likes of Manual and Ellis Island Sound”
Excerpt: “while Portishead mk. 1 cut up old James Bond/funk samples and the like in a hip-hop fashion, much of Sankt Otten’s 1999 debut sounds as if they’re sampling the same sort of stuff Pulp was channelling on This Is Hardcore, and more power to them for it… at their best (‘Tiefgang’, ‘Meter (Heute Anders)’, the Eno-esque ‘Ende Gut’) the band breaks through into a nocturnal wonderland all their own… Otten’s post-trip-hop, sample heavy atmospherics aren’t quite like anyone else out there, and whatever he and Sankt Otten would go on to do, Eine Kleine Traurigkeit (which means ‘A Small Sadness’) marked a solid, promising beginning.”
