Music: Heimat - Iti Eta No (2025)
I don't know where you begin to characterise Heimat's sound or if you would even dare to. They make catchy, scary electronic music; like a punk band scratching their way out from under a mountain of electronics. The big synth leads and crazy rhythm reminds me very much of Add N to X, and that's really the best comparison I can give you.
Regarding their latest album Iti Eta No. Compared to their earlier work, this album takes you to a wider variety of places. It's not all pulsing drums and concrete, you know! The first few tracks are in-your-face sonic booms, typical of the Heimat sound, before a sudden and gentle acoustic turn midway with "Trees". The final act plays like a bad acid trip at the Barbican centre, closing with a song about being wet.
Besides being a well-accomplished album, I'd say it's also one of the better albums to have been released this year. I can't seriously believe it took me until December to listen to it! It'll be very interesting to see what Heimat get up to next and I hope their next album is just as good as this one.
This clippet is from their Bandcamp, where you can also get the album.
Heimat's Bandcamp - Buy the CD
Sometimes very martial like a marching music, sometimes very lyrical, the Heimat's musics are going deeper in these weirdo landscapes, using cinematographic scores and samples over layers of urban cultures, in order to open the gates of the dreamy gazes and the shadowy stories.