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  • Artist(s): Alexander Hacke, Blixa Bargeld, Jochen Arbeit, N.U. Unruh
  • Summary: The German industrial band's latest release is music planned for a live performance commissioned by the city Diksmuide to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the start of the First World War.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
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  1. Dec 18, 2014
    100
    Blixa Bargeld and his consequential cohorts present a scrupulous, literate and multi-layered assemblage which subtly encompasses the enormity, the futility, the obsidian humour, the stark terror and the warnings from history (that, wouldn’t you know it, remain unheeded).
  2. Dec 17, 2014
    90
    Lament is a deep and complex album. It is not so much a piece of music, as a work of art.
  3. Mojo
    Dec 17, 2014
    80
    One of Neubauten's very best releases. [Jan 2014, p.98]
  4. Dec 17, 2014
    80
    Lament proves itself to be a remarkably effective listen because it is an utterly egoless record; a record that, in binding many stories from all sides, creates a feeling that is ultimately sans-patrie.
  5. Uncut
    Dec 17, 2014
    80
    Lament is a startling, eclectic listen. [Jan 2014, p.72]
  6. Q Magazine
    Dec 17, 2014
    60
    Its opening five minutes posit the sound of "war machinery" grinding slowly to the point of metallic cacophony, but there are many more intriguing pieces afoot. [Jan 2014, p.122]
  7. The Wire
    Jan 9, 2015
    50
    There is, in the end, something vaguely nauseating about a bunch of popular entertainers in middle age creating state-supported art inspired by the deaths of countless young men caused by an act of state-subsidised slaughter. [Jan 2015, p.61]

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