The Base

“Things To Remember/Ways To Forget”
… is a double CD, dealing – as the titel suggests – with moments that are worth thinking back to. Like when that girl stole Norberts lighter (“Patty was a Girl I like”) or when the band members passed a medical health check (against all odds) with honours (“Perfect Hearts”). The first six songs invite the listeners to a very intimate journey of reminiscences – the sound is low, sometimes radically slow, and Norberts dark voice makes Nick Cave sound like a juvenile tenor.
The six songs on “Ways to forget” give instructions of how to erase moments that are not worth remembering. Like through “Positive Drinking” or via “Hanging Your Head In The Sun” long enough. Or simply by means of mental repression like in “Not My Dog”. All these “Ways to forget”-songs sound like they were played in live – the whole band at the same time – not caring to much about possible ovberdubs or mixing. Which makes it taste a little like raw meat coming out of the speakers, sometimes coming with a side order of a gipsy brass section.
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concert work in Austria, Slovenia, Great Britain and the USA
“With ‘Things To Remember/Ways To Forget’ The Base prove that men can both show feelings and let it blast at the same time.”
(Salzburger Nachrichten)
“Whoever writes lines like ‘I thought that I was bright but she was brighter/whenever I was right she was righter’ cannot be an altogether bad person.”
(Falter)
“A compact song-package for the last jukebox on the way to the dessert.”
(Kleine Zeitung)
“A charming tour through the softer departments of alternative rock – late Blur, early Eels and mellow Lou Reed.”
(Standard)
diskography
Jet Crash Kills (EP/EMV/1996)
The End of the 20th Century Depression (EP/1997)
Ducks and Diners (LP/SBF/1999)
Toasted@TiB (Live LP/2002)
Sunday Morning Rituals (LP/2003)
Things to remember/ways to forget (LP/Ixthtuluh/2006)