Phantom of Liberty

Audio Mixer: Emanuele Baratto.Phantom of Liberty is the third full-length from Camera, a Berlin-based group who unabashedly display the influence of every '70s Krautrock band you could possibly namecheck, but they do so with such exuberance and inventiveness that their music never sounds like a predictable, pointless rehash. Many of their songs have caffeinated tempos and exuberant, joyous interplay between fuzzy garage-psych guitars, steady drums, and buzzing synths, with the electronics on this album having a particularly bright, playful tone. "Fröhlichkeit" features chiming post-rock guitars and whistling keyboards which sound spooky but not necessarily dark. It's like watching a cartoon about a UFO, meant to entertain and fascinate rather than scare. "Festus" has a constant tabla-like drum beat and is much calmer and more meditative, nodding to more mystical groups like Popol Vuh. "Ildefons" has a funky Jaki Liebezeit-like beat along with spacy, neon raygun synths and soaring guita