Robag Wruhme - Brücke Fünf
"Brücke Fünf" is 'Bridge Five' on Robag Wruhme's album, an appropriate name for an interstitial piece of music between one longer track (Prognosen Bomm) and the next (Ende), and you'd think that, being a transitional piece, it would be short, calm, and maybe borrow from the sounds of the two tracks before and after it. But that's not really the case here. There are a few discrete ideas packed into Bridge Five, which starts out as a mechanized drone, shifts into a section of bell-based tones, then back to the drone, into an eruption of squelchy Kevin Drumm-style electric death, then a voice says, "It's a bit quiet all of a sudden." It's surprising and weird, especially for a piece of music less than two minutes long, and it sets up the last track (the aforementioned "Ende") really nicely.[Buy Thora Vukk]