The KRAAK website’s write-up on Maan compares the Flemish duo’s sound to that of Belgium’s wave era, Shadow Ring, The Fall and Arab Strap. If you have no idea what that might mean, then you’re in good company, because supposedly neither do Tim Depraetere and Simon Marius Apers, the two twenty-something-aged engineering students who comprise Maan. Truth be told, they sound like a couple of brooding weirdos who start just about every song with a cold synth or bass line that screams “sample this,” and that’s more than good enough for me. Also, the perfect irony of a band called Maan releasing an album on a label called KRAAK is not lost here. That album, Manifold, is available now on LP. Stream the single, “Love Lost,” below, and while you’re at it, check out this ghastly fan-made video for “Define My Day.”
• KRAAK: http://www.kraak.net/en
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