Those who have so far revered Kadavar as the messianic high priests of retro rock – those Berlin-based Sabbath disciples with blazing riffs and bone-dry stoner hymns – will be thrown out of orbit by "I Just Want To Be A Sound". Now expanded to a quartet, this sonic collective breaks free from the chains of the past and catapults itself into new, shimmering dimensions. This is not an album for casual listening. This is a mind-expanding experience.
The self-titled opener celebrates transformation like a ritual dance: a deep, shamanic bass carves a path through the fog as guitars spiral skyward like beams of light. The chorus – detached from all earthly bounds – feels as if sound itself has shed its physical form. Here, music is not consumed but experienced. Not a commodity, but a presence. Not a pose, but transcendence.
Kadavar had already loosened their grip on vintage roots with "The Isolation Tapes". But this Album takes it a step further – tearing the bell jar of nostalgia from its pedestal. Where Sabbath’s shadow once loomed, a krautrock breeze now flows through the ether. Pink Floyd’s "Meddle" collides with Can in a Saturnian orbit. Producer Max Rieger – known for his sonic excesses between post-punk and noise – exposes the album’s soul structure like a hallucinating surgeon.
What makes this work so remarkable is its uncompromising diversity. Every track is its own universe – at times as light as drifting dust, at others as heavy as galactic stone. Meditative one moment, stirring the next. There is no safety. No verse-chorus formula. No net, no safety line. Only motion, transformation, sound.
Kadavar’s goal is no longer the next big riff moment. It’s presence. Authenticity. The now. And that’s precisely what makes this album so powerful. Those only waiting for the next neck-breaker might be left wanting. But those who embrace the metamorphosis, who let go of expectation, will be rewarded: with nothing less than the rebirth of a band.
"I Just Want To Be A Sound" is a bold leap into weightlessness. A spiritual sonic journey beyond genre conventions. Kadavar doesn’t just leave the past behind – they ascend. Real. Resolute. Enlightened.
-Helge Neumann
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