On their self-titled debut ep, German band Polarkreis 18 sometimes sound as if they were standing on mossy cliffs, clad in blue down-jackets, fur-hooded, utilizing the weather as their reverberator. Sometimes they sound like massive, moving shadows, backlit by a flashing stroboscope, their heads thrown back or bowed over the knobs and buttons of complicated consoles. But let's keep it concrete: Polarkreis 18 are a guitar band with keyboards, or a keyboard band with guitars. You may hear the echo of great bands from England or Iceland, you may remember the electronic avant-garde or the most awesome synthie pop, the so-called shoegazer bands and basically all those that held their own unmistakable brand of sound to be just as important as the song itself.