Right from the beginning, Andy Schwarz conjures on a hypnotic groove the absurdities of life lurking at every street corner. Tina Sanadakura uses theremin and obscure electronics, like the Green Circle, to spy into the darkness with shimmering sounds. Andy Schwarz picks up these fluorescent sounds, whispers, barks, moans and croons. Minimalist electronica and scattered guitar melodies define what can't be said.
On 'Sisyphus', No More ...
On 'Sisyphus', No More return to the incantation, the mantra, the loop. 'Sisyphus', clearly gloomier than preceding albums, is best compared to No More's 1982 cult album 'A Rose is a Rose'. This is also why the barking mantra of 'Hypnotized' presents itself in a new version. But here it's not the black and white of the past that's holding sway. Now it's the darkness that's glowing. In all colors! So they loop and spin, the melancholic tristesse of 'The Grey', the dragging slow-motion groove of 'La Defense', the fragmented coldness of 'Gritty Existence' and the desperate longing of Don Juan in 'Take Me To Yours'. No More combine the abstract and the concrete, romance and alienation, song and track. They show that Pop can accommodate everything. The past is nothing but an artifact of the mind. No More are blazing a trail through the present.
