Taste Test: Crypsilon dedicates new funk-pop jam to the girl with the ‘Strawberry Nose’

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When you’re in love, mundane details or already-stark features of someone come into crisper focus and thus branded on your brain. You won’t be able to shake the images, as hard as you might try, and ultimately, it just might be for the better. Formerly a rock undertaker, German alt-pop beacon Crypsilon (real name Jendrik Frilling) twists and bends numerous musical styles to his mercy, often feeling quintessential Talking Heads, and his burgeoning catalog is a freakishly astonishing display of melody and craft. His new track “Strawberry Nose” reconfigures his adoration for her, the one with the plump red sniffer, as an intoxicating romancer indebted to the sleepy dreams of yesteryear. “No diamonds, no gold, no beautiful rose / As beautiful as her with her strawberry nose,” he sings from behind a theatrical facade, serving to distance himself from the music. The psychotic pastiness of the mask, akin to Phantom of the Opera, numbs the senses, so when Frilling’s gravel-soaked voice punches your eardrums, you’re knocked right onto your back.

“Strawberry Nose” is another sampling to his new album, For the One, out July 5.

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