The third Meinschaft album “It Was a Very Good Year”. A nearly 1.5 hour-long extended trip through the (un)reality overload, unfolding over the course of 2 Compact Discs. Cinematically visionary in scope, sonority, style, and high drama/tragicomedy; a perfumed love letter to the CURRENT SITUATION.

The album was designed in collaboration with FKA ICE, featuring artwork by Shannon Cartier Lucy and Brad Troemel.

Guest performances from FKA ICE, Matt Nelson (sax), Mike Pride, Jack Wright, Dixon Blake Callahan, Zach Darrup, and others.

Bonus track remixes by Cube and Rick Weaver.

“Standing atop a mountain of iniquity and surveying the well-groomed lifeforms below, ‘It Was a Very Good Year’ urinates off a cliff into the stream of tradition and daydreams a cooler, crueler, and more beautiful world. 18+2 tracks of metal-textured rock & roll golems, gruesome 20th c. chimæræ, Byronic vampirism, as well as some good-old-fashioned chuckles.” —EV FM

"A sonic blur of epic ballads, original soundtrack recordings, guitar-fronted ambience with swirls of electronic cacophony, timeless samples and decisive vocals directing the entire aural soirée. 'It Was a Very Good Year' is a complete show performed high above in Sky City. Prince Vultan and his winged Hawkmen gathering for a courtly extravaganza. MEINSCHAFT is a consummate troupe delivering enthralling creativity in both song writing and performance. A composition filled with interconnecting doors, a place for the conscious to wander, experiencing both warm nostalgia and sonic waves piercing the threshold of thoughts.

With selections from It Was a Very Good Year spanning two compact discs, this sonic foray clocks in around eighty minutes. Amazingly there are no tracks over six minutes, making the entire listen diverse and magically fluid. MEINSCHAFT is somewhat elusive on identity (it's Evan), but the credits for all who contributed are clearly delineated on the bandcamp page. Getting back to sonic description... like everything we listen to, the final consumption by absorbing minds is so beautifully subjective in that moment. At times It Was a Very Good Year sounds over the top, a spectacle of strobe lights and arms a flail in the space above, "Silence/Violence" for example. Book ended by "The Wondrous Boat Ride" and "Ultimo Tramonto", the later with vocals from FKA ICE, there is an appreciated understanding It Was a Very Good Year needs much more than a brief sample listening. You can still try and roll through ten second samples and get a feel, but this composition really needs multiple full listens. This being said from an approach of exactly that. An even so, with writing this, there still is a loss or a feeling of how could i connect better with a written description. With the amount of material and diversity within, descriptive notes can only get you to the point of listening. Hopefully those reading this will.

Thank you Meinschaft for flushing out the neural sonic pathways and creating an album that's a true pleasure to get lost in." —Lost in a Sea of Sound