'Fou' is an eight-track CD in digipack and I'll just dive in: It's fun, but it leaves a lot to wish for. Is it bad noise? No! Hell no! It's the noise that makes you want more, solid heavy noise with a lot of modulation, feedback and distorted sounds. The stuff that makes you feel small when played on high volume, which happens to be the stuff that makes you feel tall when you might be in a smallish mood. 'Open for interpretation', so to say, it's all about the sounds and the current state of mind. The tracks don't have lyrics as such, even though vocal (samples?) can be heard in some of the tracks (a.o 'Mantra Delire', 'Metrazol' and 'Aphasia'), but they're so mangled that they don't bring a message over.
So what is it that makes me wish for more, you ask? Well, with eight tracks and a total playing time of just over 32 minutes, this is way too short to be considered a full-time CD IMHO. It's like with all the track the guys are starting, and they don't know how to tell their story. The tracks have almost no beginning and no end. Abrupt endings and abrupt beginnings make it hard to follow a "flow" if there was one to begin with. And I'm always looking for that flow as it makes a CD comparable to a story you're reading or a film you're watching. It makes it easier to digest extremes as well as follow a possible message the makers would have. So soundwise, it's very enjoyable although on the short side. But conceptual, I'm still trying to find out how what aphasia has to do with Metrazol...
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