Von Sudenfed Wipes Sound, Smudged Lipstick
Despite having an incurable crush on all parties involved (the only member of the Fall that really counts, two mice from Mars), for some reason I totally slept on the Von Sudenfed record until this very weekend. (It looks like Idolator slept on VS in general, unless this counts. Which it don’t.)
Which is a crime against the readership, because if there’s one thing every American (and otherwise) needs in their lives, it’s a 50-something English crank vituperatively mumbling over alarm clock noises and broken electro-rock from two Germans. Hell, despite the fact that he still slurs the intro like a constipated homeless man, “The Rhinohead” even manages to make Mark E. sound melodic enough to slot in a playlist with your This Is Next favorites. The tranny-tastic video for “Fledermaus Can’t Get It” is the perfect visual metaphor for the band’s sound: rough, homely dudes squeezing themselves into gold lame fabulousness, and not quite getting there.
Von Sudenfed – “Fledermaus Can’t Get It” [YouTube]
