Warren Suicide - 'The Hello' (Fume) Released 10/04/06

‘I’ve never met Warren Suicide…’ Said Warren Suicide’s front man Luki last year speaking to Gigwise in an over crowded and unbearably hot dressing room in Liverpool. Chances are he’s still looking for him now. Missing since August last year it would be easy to cast aspersions and write Berlin’s foremost electro noise-niks off. Fortunately that’s not the case as remaining members Nackt and Cherie together with latest addition, drummer and occasional singer Bertill rock the speakers with the force of the apocalypse. Welcome. To Warren’s world…

First track the eponymous ‘Warren Suicide’ rejigged and remixed into a dark and furious corner that ordinary House beats fear to thud. All eerie vocals and heavy synth stabs starts ‘The Hello’ off as it means to carry on. Imagine if you will the prospect of LCD Soundsystem’s effortless cool made evil by vampires and you’re somewhere close. Up next is the peerless genre hopping of ‘Fulford’—a song about Cheerleaders holding the white house to siege all 2-4-6-8’ swirling guitar and twisted beats. Marvellous. The delightful cacophony and energy the trio stir is truly unique, some parts punk, some parts electro and all wrapped up in deceivably hummable blasts and that’s before we even get to Warren himself. An antidote of pagan proportions to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s exercise in mass media marketing Warren Suicide himself has been seen in person by the beautiful and gorgeous voiced synth manipulator Cherie and no one else. She met him when she was Twelve as we find out later in the album on the long player's highlight, err…‘Twelve’.

The only complaint you could level at ‘The Hello’ is over familiarity with it’s best moments. ‘Fulford’ was released nearly a year ago, best track ‘Butcher Boy’ came out in 2004, granted there’s a new intro and  outro but it all seems a little glued on. In fact nearly half the album has been released in one form or another only saving grace being the big question… Do you already have it? Safe to guess the answer for most of you is a resounding ‘Nein’!

What the **** are you waiting for? Sell your soul to Warren and sit back and enjoy the evil. You even get the best (or at least the most ****ed up) Beatles cover ever in the form of ‘Yer Blues’ thrown in free of charge. Even those that have heard most of the record already in previous forms will still be surprised and it’s impossible to ask more for your dollar than that.