The former Malaria! member, also briefly part of Einstürzende Neubauten, returns somewhat to her first love on this new solo effort. The shadow of a whole range of minimal synthwave and coldwave groups loom over this record in shades of gray and black. That said, there are also many elements of abstract techno, often in the form of small interludes, that balance out the frankly bewitching Moment. In German or English, Gudrun Gut declaims more than she sings, and doesn’t lack a certain humour, present in the ironic “Baby I Can Drive My Car (in Saudi Arabia)” or her cover of Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging”. Mixed by Marco Haas (T. Raumschmiere), Moment is a record of cold, clinical and sensual Germanic synthwave and electro, just the way we like it.
