Ventre Unique by Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp

Great art rock albums warmly welcome you into an alternate universe, a world of colorful fantasy and radical emotion that we yearn for the instant the music stops. Ventre Unique by Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp fulfills this promise, dousing their cyclical krautrock sound with endless layers of detailed embellishment to construct gorgeous sonic scenery. Unlike some krautrock which leans heavily into an electronic, almost post-human sound, this record takes the bones of this versatile aesthetic in the most humanist possible direction, assembling an enormous lineup of live-recorded musicians playing instruments from all corners of the world. This humanist bend takes krautrock to its most believably psychedelic conclusions, assembling a maximalist field of vision hypnotically dancing to an essential, unshakable beat, perfectly mirroring the realization that a common spirit connects all things. All the while, a continually inviting, approachable ethos insures us against an alarming fall off the deep end, assuring us that these realizations mesh perfectly with base reality and exist to comfort us above all else.