LP / Tapete Records / 2012
Herpes is back: "Symptome und Beschwerden" ("Symptoms and Ailments") is the title of their second album.
The
Herpes sound mixes bone dry Art School Punk (Devo, Gang of Four, early
Mekons) with some mid-period Goldene Zitronen, refined here and there
with clear Krautrock influences. Not the hippie-blues-rock Krautrock,
of course, but rather the Neu! Krautrock. It's presented with such
vehemence and naturalness, as if Herpes had never even heard a note
from any of those bands (which may be the case – you'd have to ask). As
if Suicide would cover Pere Ubu.