Tromatic Reflexxions

Tromatic Reflexxions is the debut album by Von Sudenfed. And who are Von Sudenfed? For starters they're a trio formed by Andi Toma, Mark E Smith and Jan St Werner. But depending who you ask and how, they're a sound-system, a family, a band. It combines the genre-smashing attack of early-millennia club music with Smith's free-associating visionary wordplay. Tromatic Reflexxions sounds like the work of a group - unlike the results of all too many producer-singer collaborations, where the vocals sound like phoned-in afterthoughts to fill a voice-shaped blank.