If Geography has an impact on music, then Vienna has coloured Tosca's music at every turn. Over the course of a career spanning two decades, the austrian capital has inspired Richard Dorfmeister (of Kruder and Dorfmeister fame) and Rupert Huber to make electronic mood pieces coloured with mitteleuropean melancholy. It's a bittersweet juxtaposition that is much in evidence on the pair's new album, Odeon.
It opens with the hazy strings of 'zur guten', which ebbs into the oozing keys and pizzicato steel string guitars of 'what if', which features a smokey vocal from Sarah Carlier. Lead single 'Jayjay' is a haunted combination of sombre piano chords, rolling drums and weird, otherworldly vocals from JJ Jones. It's the pivotal track on a record that sees Tosca tapping into gothic atmospheres. It's darker than their previous five albums, more downbeat, at times ambient. it's unlike anything else out there at the moment.
