The Drain, by Ignatz

The Drain

by Ignatz

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P4ked the one time i felt my disdain for the world abate, i was in maine. it was mid june, it was breezy and warm and the water felt nice on my toes. then i remembered a bad review of in the aeroplane over the sea i read last year, and the feeling vanished. 7.2/10

Robbe VP A high point in Ignatz' career!

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1.	Stealing The Steel 04:34	buy track
2.	The Watertower 03:00	buy track
3.	Carry the Weight 03:08	buy track
4.	My Children 02:40	buy track
5.	Gain 05:11	buy track
6.	People in this Town 02:51	buy track
7.	Moaning and Slobbering 02:13	buy track
8.	Meadows 05:29	buy track
9.	Eulogy Example 02:06	buy track
10.	Strange How All is Changed 08:35	buy track
11.	Birdhouse 01:32	buy track

about

Ignatz returns with his 6th full album to KRAAK. On The Drain he reveals himself as a master who as found the essence.

You probably know that Ignatz is the moniker of Bram Devens. He stole it from the mouse in the legendary Krazy Kat comics by George Herriman. After several releases on Fonal Records, Ultra Eczema and Goaty Tapes, he releases his 4th album on KRAAK, co-joined by the great Feeding Tube records.

Ignatz’ new album consists of a hypnotic and mystical song cycle that centre around leitmotifs as despair, sobriety and the drain on his backyard. The Drain is a master piece, on which the Landen based troubadour weaves echos of South American folk music into a complex of harsh folk, shallow blues and loner psych. He flushed the crappy electronics from his early records through the drain and created room for sparse fingerpicking and mumbled singing. In the 11 songs Devens finally reveals himself as the master guitar player and song writer that he always has been.

The Drain dissects in grandeur the human void, for which only codeine is the appropriate remedy. We are lucky that Ignatz’ version of The Great Void is soothingly synonymous with The Essence.

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released June 24, 2016

K090 - Ignatz - The Drain
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LP: 500 copies
CD: 300 copies
Produced & masterd by Christophe Albertijn
Recorded at Les Ateliers Claus

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Blooming

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NO MATHEMATICS

Feb 2023
Undone Shal

Oct 2022

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