Das mit "Spoil, microbe" betitelte zweite Album von code inconnu zeichnet sich durch die Gegenüberstellung und Verschmelzung von auf herkömmlichen Instrumenten Eingespieltem und Computergeneriertem aus. Der Fokus richtet sich auf das Stagnierende, das Labile, in jedem Fall auf das Kleine, Minimale und Unmittelbare. Große Strukturen treten in den Hintergrund und das Momentane gewinnt. Dem Sound als Grundelement wird einiges an Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet, Repetitionen durchbrechen herkömmliche musikalische Erzählstrukturen, Erwartungshaltungen des Pop-Konsumenten werden erfüllt um dann doch zu verwirren. Aber das passiert nicht (nur) aus Spaß an der Abstraktion, sondern entspringt der Suche nach der Schönheit im eigentlich Banalen. Eine Mixtur aus Groove, Ambient und Noise.

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Bereit für starke Töne junger Grazer Burschen?Dann gehen Sie dem „unbekannten Begriff “ auf den Grund,,sperren Sie die Ohrwascheln auf und lassen sie sich von den jugendlichen Krienzer,Uhlmann &Sworcik durchputzen.Als einziger Routinier stärkt Andreas Klöckl aka Reas,seit Fleischpost-Tagen ein Fixstern am Experimentalrock-Himmel,diesem homogenen Juniorenteam den Rücken. Nicht selten beginnt die akustische Reise mit einem Knistern,einem Rascheln.Rasch gehts dann zur Sache.Vorwärts,aber mit Querverbindungen.Querpässe öffnen die Räume,wie wir Fußballerinnen wissen.Und zwischen den Assoziationen,die von diversen kühnen Sounds angestachelt bzw.unangestrengt angestrengt werden,wird man an die besseren Tage von Postrock erinnert.Als Kollektive wie Tortoise noch etwas zu sagen hatten und das auch auszudrücken vermochten.Gutes Zeichen:Man möchte diese krude Mischung aus Sampling und haptischen Instrumenten,diesen Mix aus Ambient und Groove,Experiment und Noise immer und immer wieder hören.Womöglich am besten live.
Also:Veranstalter,veranstaltet!
Review by Andrea Fellinger of Freistil

Wie Mikroben schaben sich Code Inconnu gekonnt durch die Poren elektronischer Häute und hinterlassen wunderschön-instrumentale Spuren von klarem und reduziertem Gitarrenhandwerk,das sich arti fiziell eingeschweißt nervös windet.Post Rock für Art-Jazz-Freunde,oder Jazz für Experimentalrock-Freunde.Arbeit am Detail,die Freude macht.
Review by Tiz Schaffer of Megaphon

The minimalistic cover of this album is already promising. Ichno Studios did the artwork, which suits the music well. Code Inconnu is a four-piece with a relatively standard line-up (guitar, synth, drums, bass), nevertheless presenting an original concept far from mainstream. They combine the traditional intrumental song structure with an experimental touch. A band that fitts the German electronic pop tradition rather well, Can, Neu and Komeit or Laub (without vocals) can be considered fellow bands, all with their own style. The music breaths some kind of mystery, but also a calmness and melodic professionality. As if these musicians have played together for many years, including performing many live gigs. An excellent album with a high and constant level.
Review by Paul Bijlsma of Phosphor Magazine

Austrian group Code Inconnu operate on the cusp of post-rock and electronica, favouring the latter on Spoil, Microbe, a hall of mirrors in which the instrumentalists and their sampled and treated doppelgangers do battle. Occasionally the complexity of the music, with its odd meters and shifting harmonies, leads to a suffocating density. The best moments here see them picking up the technological gauntlet thrown down by Tortoise's "Djed", something most post-rockers haven't thought even to try.
"Sleepless Music" is one of the best things I've heard this year. Guitars billow like slowly advancing clouds of mustard gas over a slippery, cut-up 9/4 beat, before subsiding into a passage of beutiful eerie arpeggios, then erupting into a free noise coda complete with digital groans and splutters. In fact noise codas seem to be a speciality. "Fu" climaxes with a monstrous rising guitar figure strafed by Hecker-like squawks and squeals, and the final section of the superb "Seeds" lapses into a moody landscape of dark electronic harmonies and percussive blips and thuds.
Spoil, Microbe is a bit too cluttered, as if the group are trying to cram all their tricks into each track, but that's an understandable lapse, when the tricks are as good as these. Code Inconnu just need to let it all breathe a little, and they could be world beaters.
Review by Keith Moliné of The Wire 

Rarely you meet drum'n'bass-influenced music that's also very rich in dissonant intensity, therefore generating peculiar overtones all around the place; this is exactly what happens in this album, which I like much more - you guess it - when listened from the speakers. Code Inconnu's line up consists of Gottfried Krienzer (guitar, sampling) Christoph Uhlmann (synth, sampling) Markus Sworcik (drums, sampling) and Andreas Klöckl (bass); the quartet raises a mass of deranged resonances and unexpected colours, thanks to very individual voices that, while interacting in the overall context, are each one the reason for slight deviations from the norm, which results in angular fragments, chiming shifting chords and throbbing organisms of low frequencies that seem to come from the outside, so eccentrical is their placement in the mix. Try this CD at medium volume in a silent environment and be rewarded by a product which won't have you howling for pleasure but whose mechanisms approach perfection. 
Review by Massimo Ricci of Touching Extremes