Music
20 Mar 01

Am Deister

For those who think actual song structures are a capitalist construct engineered to keep the masses in their place, we have Dakota Oak.

Described as 'lo-fi post-rock' and sounding like 26 soundtrack fragments in search of a particularly weird film, the random melody generator that is Am Deister - taking its name, some intermittent episodes of still, snowy loveliness, and, er, some flugelhorns from a famous forest in Hannover - is probably a more likely contestant for the Turner Prize than the Mercury. We swerve, without a map, from Jim O'Rourke composing from a supine position ('How Danny's Friends Became a Force for Good'), to the Carpenters starring in the sci-fi remake of Midnight Cowboy (em, 'How Danny's Sorrowing Friends Defied Convention') to The For Carnation covering the Beach Boys ('Sing').

Lovely, if you like that sort of thing. Bitte, Twisted Nerve, can we have some more?