Library Rock's Backpages

Faust: The Wumme Years 1971-73

Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2001

THERE'S STILL nothing quite like the first side of Faust's eponymous debut album, recorded in 1971 and released by a bemused Polydor in 1972. These 20 minutes disconcertingly blend a dreamlike visionary sensibility (cousin to Werner Herzog's 1974 feature The Enigma of Casper Hauser) with the radical cut-ups of Stockhausen and the disruptive collage aesthetic of Frank Zappa.

Total word count of piece: 490

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.