Aloa Input

★★★★

Devil’s Diamond Memory Collection SILUH. CD/DL/LP

Successfully eclectic look into a possible future.

German trio Aloa Input – Angela Aux, Marcus Grassl and Cico Beck – return with Devil’s Diamond Memory

Collection, their first new album in six years. Recorded across the world in studios, cinemas and basements in Mexico City, Montreal and Munich, the trio ponder what it would be like to be the last person on Earth, facing an AI-dominated future. Aux suggests it is an album that can be listened to in years to come to understand what, in the past, we thought the future may be. The tics and idiosyncrasies running through 2013’s Anysome and 2015’s

Mars Etc are present and correct: this is tender, inventive, brittle music. The Morriconeinfluenced Atlas Daze and the gentle Make It Rain are affecting ballads, while the bass-driven motorik of Desert Something sound likes the past futures of clear reference points Can and The Beta Band.