2001 saw THE AVALANCHES making sizeable waves with their smart, sample-based invective, but the return of astute pigeonhole-dodgers GERLING cements the feeling that young Australia is indeed armed and primed to thrill in the future.
The curiously-titled “The Deer In You” serves fair warning that their soon-come LP, ”Headzcleaner” is liable to be a bizarre marvel – probably not surprising considering they’ve been working with artists as diverse as KYLIE MINOGUE, CORNELIUS and SOLEX in the interim.
GERLING themselves have spoken of “The Deer In You” in terms of a “Krautrock disco song” and if you can suspend disbelief, that actually ain’t so far wide of the mark, as the whole thing’s underpinned by wicked slabs of bass; the kind of nagging thrum NEU! Achieved when firing on all cylinders and more spacy, theremin-style effects than you could shake a MIR station at.
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The mix from ‘mysterious’ Finnish group THE DELI BROTHERS (?!!) turns the bass up to cranium-crunching levels and comfortably confirms its’ parent’s good impression. Besides, when the heavily reverbed ‘n’ compressed vocals cut through the fog to ask: “Do you know where your courage has gone?” well, you need look no further. GERLING are left of field, forward looking and liable to hijack whatever musical blueprints take their fancy. Look out for that album.
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