Single Premiere: Nicht Nur – DegHerl (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

I love the way that DegHerl manages to blend the big and bombastic with the deft and the delicate on their latest single, “Nicht Nur.” It is as if they have built a heavy song and then cleverly stripped off 90% of its weight, leaving only a robust structure of beat and bass, and then filled those spaces with beguiling atmospheres and curious sonics. Sometimes it feels as if you are looking through windows into the heart of the song to see what is truly at its core.

The result of this balance of power and poignancy is a song that drives hard but also occasionally feels weightless, a perfect blend of the ambient and the aggressive. Behind those obvious grooves, bass pulses, and intriguing drum patterns are washes and waves of coiled gothic guitars and spiraling synth patterns, a sense of urgency and anticipation, soundscaping embraced and tethered by sonic solidity.

It’s a clever combination, opposites that attract, and do so effortlessly, passionately, Daniela Gullotta’s Teutonic vocals adding to the spikiness of the top end sound. It would be easy to point at past reference points – the dark-alt-pop grooves of The Cure or the alien sonic world of The Banshees, but here DegHerl sounds like nothing less than a whole new dark sonic language for the future rather than merely picking up where the story left off.

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