LeRoy – Skläsh

Album Review by Katie Hawthorne | 25 Nov 2015
Album title: Skläsh
Artist: LeRoy
Label: Schamoni
Release date: 4 Dec

Google Translate can't handle Skläsh; after suggesting that it might possibly be a Swedish word, the engine admitted defeat. No matter, because Skläsh feels a perfect, untranslatable onomatopoeia for the avant-garde workings of Munich music maker Leo Hopfinger. 

A spiralling, left-field adventure through found sounds, field recordings and other noises totally uncategorisable, Hopfinger offers a walk down a path rarely taken. For a starting point, think kraut, think lo-fi, think house… heck, even techno. But then imagine those genres in the hands of an ensemble of woodland creatures, who've got their paws on a couple of cheese graters and a sitar. 

Completely immersive, you could spend all your time trying to calculate the weird and the wonderful in Skläsh’s soundscape – but, at its heart, it’s far warmer and more welcoming than that. The bubbling, echoing start to The Beach, or the semi-industrial twinge to Skai help you gain a foothold within Hopfinger's madness, and once you're in, you're in. 

http://www.schamoni.de/musik