Kammerflimmer Kollektief’s previously releases have been an exercise in liminality; one one side restrained jazz and electronic background, on the other an incongruous skronky dissonance.  Jinx, their sublime sixth album, starts by tip-toeing gingerly along this fence, but by the end it is plying it apart with a crowbar and using the wooden fragments to crucify bunnies.

The bossa-shuffle of “Palimpsest” (seeing as Tim Hecker and Kammerflimmer have used this as a track title in the last year, I’ve now had to go and look it up: “A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible”.  Oh.  I like that a lot, the impermanence of memory…now where was I…umm, ah yes) segues into Neu’s “Seeland”, or as it is known here, “Jinx” (the second, looser, version of the title track later in the album is more successful).  The saxophone is cracked out for “Live At The Cactus Motel”, where it scribbles its name colourfully on a wall of piano.  A drone begins to build from here, rising through “Gammler, Zen and Hohe Berge”, muzzling the baby talk of “Both Eyes Tight Shut”.  After that second “Jinx” (menacing clatter, fine free harmonium), there is brief refuge in “Nest”, and then the ten minutes of “Subnarkotisch”…there goes the fence…and the bunnies…the horror, the horror…

Listen to more at their website, buy it from a strangely underwhelmed other one.