The release of Anadol’s debut album in 2019 is the last great thing that happened in the world. Everyone could actually agree on it back then, no annual top lists without »Uzun Havalar«, this quirky piece of work that ran through its listeners just fine, while at the same time satisfying them intellectually. Three bloody years later, the follow-up LP is now available. And it is, yes, complete awesomeness. It takes two long songs before you finally understand where you are. Until then: Mayan flutes, »Neu!« drums, noise, meaningful guitar slips, colliding submarines, crashing gliders, for almost twenty minutes this sounds much more like the Taj Mahal Travellers than like Anadol’s previous work. For more than half of the playing time of »Felicita«, Anadol simply winds itself into flawless, perfectly orchestrated, mind-expanding Kosmische music. Didn’t necessarily have to see it coming in this consistency and force, but boy, can you be thankful for it. Great from the first to the last note. Especially live, it will be gigantic, the mixture of the new lunacy and the still fantastic organ-folk-disco, which Anadol played on »Uzun HavalarÍ and still does here.
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