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Instructions to achieve a DEUS-like sound:
1 - connect your guitar to a washing machine in the spin cycle and disconnect the power every 4 beats
2 - hire a violinist, cripple him, and force him to play while hopping on one foot
3 - stay for 6 months in Belgium listening only to Velvet Underground and Zappa, learning to sing their lyrics with the local accent.
dEUS are eccentric, whimsical, they make guitars sound like radiators but are also refined, they love the Velvet Underground and steal loops from Zappa's songs: all this in 1994, the wonderful year of Grunge and the first cries of Brit Pop.
They come from Belgium, they baffle the critics and are admired across the continent: the path is paved by the single Suds and Soda which is actually jovial with its hopping violin (in Stravinsky it represented the devil). The chorus makes you jump, energizes, smashes... anything you want.
Second gem: Hotellounge, melancholic yet reassuring, is a sort of quirky ballad, soft but with the guitar expressing itself through a toaster.
And then Via, with a movie-like intro, every stroke of the bow sends a shiver down your spine. The title track is a tribute to the recently deceased Zappa: the loop is borrowed from an old piece of his, the result is of a mad intellectual.
In Lets Get Lost, they really sound like Lou Reed's band played on an old gramophone losing its beat, in Jigsaw You the sadness that emerges is that of an old clown.
The tracks are all of the highest level but perhaps Right As Rain is the most introspective if not the most fascinating. I don't want to add anything else, it's up to you...
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