After the untimely death of E.S. Posthumus’s Franz Vonlichten, surviving brother Helmut Vonlichten said that E. S. Posthumus would no longer be an active group. I feared we would never hear from Helmut again and that the world had not only lost one great musician, but two. My fears were put to rest late last year when Helmut announced the formation of a new group with lifelong friend (a “brother by destiny”), Nihl Finch and a singer by the name of Paint.
Les Friction released their debut self-titled album a couple weeks ago on January 24. It maintains much of the feel of an E. S. Posthumus album, but has evolved into something much more than just “an E. S. Posthumus album with vocals” – after all, that’s kind of what Cartographer was.
Read more about the album and the individual songs after the jump. (more…)
