Switzerland’s finest (and probably not only) drum-and-tuba funeral band, the Dead Brothers (“More or less, what survived after a symphony orchestra had a car crash” –from their bio), branch out beyond the bloozy death-dirges and sicko fuzz-feasts of their legendary 2003 album “Day of the Dead” on this, a surprisingly subtle soundtrack to the recently-released film “Flammend' Herz”, which, it says here, is about “old German men covered in tattoos.” And wouldn’t you know, that’s the way it sounds, too – like a leathery oompah band drinking it up in the wreckage of a world war. The tuba is the primary instrument this time around, bleating like a woozy, dying pachyderm, but there’s plenty of Dr. Phibes vibes and creepy incidental instrumentation, as well – dig the haunted house penny whistle on “Swing 48 Radio” for one unforgettable example. There’s also banjo-driven jump-blues (“Roadworker Blues”, a deadringer for the Ren and Stimpy theme!), jarring, mixed-genre interludes (“Kund and Wolfe” starts off as the world’s first tuba spy jazz tune, and somehow ends up as stark, Bad Seeds-y piano tinklings) and even weirder stuff, like instro-folk with xylophones and yeah, even an accordion-laden death-dirge or two. It’s crazy, man, and although Flammend Herz probably won’t give you nightmares like the Dead Brothers’ previous two albums will, it’ll most certainly fuel some very strange and wondrous dreams.