Ankh is best described as Black Sabbath meets Depeche Mode and Chemical Brothers. The genre is named Electronic progressive rock. Ankh was founded in 1991 in Kielce, Poland. They describe themselves as: “ A musical surgical operation”. Whatever that may be. Expect Unexpected is Ankh’s fourth album and it is oddly appealing. The cool electronic sounds are mixed with nice sometimes subtle guitarwork and occasional singing in Polish and English. It’s a surprisingly enjoyable album and probably not like anything you’ve ever heard before. Expect Unexpected begins with a string of electronic noises which takes about a minute and sounds somewhat like the song ‘Windowlicker’ of Aphex Twin. These skits reoccur twice, in the middle and in the end of the album. It doesn’t really add anything but maybe the band have some kind of philosophical explanation for it. That makes it so that there are thirteen real songs on this album. The first actual song (number 2) starts with Polish singing, which is partially translated to English later on in the song.

The Polish singing which is recurrent throughout the CD is not even annoying, but you of course have not a clew what the man is saying. Luckily the libretto helps out here, it only contains the lyrics in English so you can look up what the they’re singing, although it become clear quickly that the lyrics aren’t much more than a decoration to the music. The songs mostly have one or two guitarloops in them and right when it’s about to get boring they put in another electrical sound are some other sound-change. They manage to keep it interesting. I was going to give this album a 7.0 rating, but then I listened to it again after a week and I liked it a lot better, hence the 8.0. Several songs have really great-sounding parts in them, which would go great in a movie. Especially song 11, with which you envision sunny surroundings and a guy in a white-colored big American car (I probably can’t name the brand) cruising the highway, after receiving really good news.