Refined drunken smut singing puddle stomping prancing cabaret karyoke European brothel bastard of a Zeitgeist.

There are neither enough adjectives nor enough genres to describe the aural Chylamidia of the Franco-German duo Brezel (Pretzel) Göring and his wife Françoise Cactus that together make up Stereo-Total, (a moniker taken from the first mix tape Brezel gave his wife).

Over the years of listening to this band and slowly assimilating a song here or there I've found that while no one LP can hold together coherently on its own it really doesn't matter. Their modus operandi remains the same: play a finished guitar drunkenly screaming karyoke with a Galoise between the fingers until it burns, start another song, and then be sardonically refined just because of a voice gone hoarse, switch off, do it again and again all the while looking like a fighter pilot on a mission behind a pair of sunglasses with a Bill Haley swagger.

6/10

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