Markus Mehr 'Lava' – Music Musings and Miscellany

Except “Great cover with the sky bubbling like magma. Markus Mehr was originally a rock guitarist who now makes more ambient and electronic music, but the inner guitar hero isn’t entirely absent. Lava is quite an eclectic album, and a little oddly paced. There’s some definite sturm und drang about the first track. ‘Agenda’ is well titled because it sets one for the rest of the record to follow. It starts out hazily ambient, almost casually by rote, but builds into something altogether dirtier and nastier… If the standard of the first three tracks had been consistently maintained, I’d honestly put it down as a contender for album of the year (and to my mind 2010 has been a really strong year).”

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