The word minimalism is used a lot to describe Disappears, the mezmerizing Chicago quartet that dropped its new album, Lux (Kranky), in April.
Yes, Disappears' music carries a sense of simplicity. Its sound is reminiscent of both '60s garage rock and '70s krautrock. And yes, Disappears' songs rarely stretch beyond the 3:30-minute mark.
But Disappears does not [...]

Almost 40 years after the fact, Faust remains a standard-bearer of Krautrock, the German experimental rock movement of the early 1970s.
Just don't call Faust a Krautrock band.
For one thing, says Jean-Herve Péron, one of the group's two remaining original members, Faust doesn't have many fans in Germany, even though it's still based there. For another, none [...]