aaamusic | On 14, May 2012

You listen to Nina Wagner’s voice and straight away you think of The Kills and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but there is much more to this London / Berlin based duo than this.
The Unkindness of Ravens blends indie, electro and rock music and creates an interesting and creative hybrid. After the pounding Viper, Virus starts like a Sleigh Bells’ rant before growing in a hard-core deflagration.
Das Gift is a melodic syncopated cavalcade where Nina’s voice is emphasised and summarises strengths and weaknesses of the duo.
TUOR’s formula is simple, sometimes way too simple. When it strikes for being efficient, as in the marvellous The Spaces In Between, it fails elsewhere in the repetitiveness of the drum machine and anti-emotional guitar riffs.
My idea is that Virus is still too unripe to spread, and it will take a while before TUOR will unleash their great potential.

★★★★★

Lorenzo Coretti