Let Go sees KMFDM celebrating 40 years as pioneers of Alternative dance music, that has been filling dancefloors at Industrial, techno, alternative and fetish nights the world over. Still a vital force, the bands original line up of Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli, Andy Selway, Andee Blacksugar are joined by regular special guest MC Ocelot. The album was recorded in Hamburg, Brooklyn and Florida.
The album opens with the single Let Go that has an intense electro disco beat with vocals about not caring and just letting loose on the dancefloor and life in general, go on, just go for your dreams and stop caring what anyone else thinks of your choices, go beyond the hate and find your own tribe.
Push! Opens with a fraught situation as the narrator tells us he's going away and won't bug us before the electroclash synth come in to lay bare the story of dark times, caught in the cultural crossfire trying to find a way to safer times as they deploy a classic 80's bassline to build everything else around.
Next Move marries a robotic vocal to 80's style synth rock to take us into battle where we are all awaiting your Next Move, wondering if it will be sideways or onwards to better times, of backwards into chaos and despair as it gets glitchier the only thing that can rescue us is another stunning bassline with keyboard flourishes set against a funky guitar break.
Airhead is an industrial anthem with cheeky lyrics pointing out all the things that might have set you apart from all the Airheads trying to live out the reality of the classic Steve Buscemi film this tune is named after, with a few modern twists for the sort of paranoid existence of a typical suburban keyboard warrior living a trainwreck life.
Turn The Light On uses some brutal beats for the lyrics to be rapped over in a Paul Hardcastle style, encouraging us to rise up and break apart the controlling forces bringing us all down, get rid of all the stupidity and work together to create a better world rather than sinking into dictatorship and an ever more authoritarian world, it's time to revolt.
Touch is softer sounding as befits the fact this is the only love song on the album, no not some soppy ballad, but trying to get lucky in a club, coming together to Touch each other in a most consensual way.
Erlkonig has propulsive beats with jagged guitars similar to Oomph! Not sure if this is based on Goethe's poem about a child being murdered by a supernatural being or not, but the German lyrics certainly sound dark enough.
When The Bell Tolls has a jazz noir intro to this deep dive into modern paranoia at the disastrous state of politics, getting angrier and angrier at the lords of disaster either in control, or wanting to be in control, if only we could get rid of the lot of them, with whisper through the walls vocals that mutate into angry rants, hoping Putin, Trump and their ilk are soon confined in the bowels of hell.
Totem E. Eggs has a heavy repeating guitar riff with drum and bass going wild as the desire for resurrection obliterating domestic dictators blasts out of the speakers.
WW 2023 threatens to go symphonic metal as they walk us through the terror of living in 2023 with samples from George W Bush and others, as the brass section comes into the dubby mix, full of fear of world war 3, just what it means to live through the fear and destruction if you are in the wrong part of the planet, or just the bullying and privations for the rest of us, this is for me the stand out song on the album, that needs to be blasted out loud anywhere politicians are uttering any pro war sentiments. That gives way to the albums outro Fillet Manchego Claret & Blow the bands favourite fuels.
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