Traversing the fringes of post-punk, Krautrock, and synth pop, German quartet Von Spar have shifted their sound from the explosive dance-infused noise of their 2004 debut to the contained, lush-sounding Motorik of 2019's Under Pressure.
Founded in Cologne in 2003 by Sebastian Blume, Jan Philipp Janzen, Christopher Marquez, Phillip Tielsch, and Thomas Mahmoud, Von Spar blasted onto the scene with their explosive mix of dance-punk and noise with the release of 2004's Die uneingeschränkte Freiheit der privaten Initiative. The band's mix of post-punk and Krautrock fitted into th...