Pet Shop Boys – “Super”
( X2 Recordings / Rough Trade, from April 1, )
Many love the Pet Shop Boys, others were often annoyed by them, and I was often annoyed by others who had so often annoyed. I always wanted to be like the Pet Shop Boys. Ok, who would you want to be otherwise? Mark Knopfler? Bono? Peter Gabriel? Why?
The music of Pet Shop Boys ?? well, actually they have made the same album over and over again for years. But it sounded always different, new and exciting. . And now comes “Super”, the 14th album in 30 years
“Happiness”, the first track, reminiscent of the wonderful Justus Köhncke: minimalist, mobile, hopefully. In the second song, the single “The Kids Pop”, then creeps even the Popkatze out of the bag. It’s a pop hymn to yourself, to your own biography with many nostalgia and Emotions – it is also a declaration of love from Neil Tennant Chris Lowe and all people who love the Pet Shop Boys: “They called us the pop kids / Cause we loved the pop hits / And quoted the best bits / So we were the pop kids / I loved you / I loved you. ” At the end of the cowbells from Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana” -Extended mix even be installed: Ding, Ding, Ding, fertil, fertil, Ding, Ding, Ding fertil fertil – Ding, Ding, Ding, fertil, fertil, Ding, Ding Ding fertil fertil. “
After that, the plate with” Groovy “almost a little Erasure-way before then completely wraps in a Club soundtrack, deep and trance. Without that I would have noticed it I find myself between Robinson “Ficki Ficki” Club Berghain-of-tails-encircled sounds again. I like that.
“Sad Robot World” brakes the plate with a hint of Falco’s “Jeannie” Beat and console noises in the background gently from, the Mood sooner 10cc, “I’m not in love” Eighties housy think. “Theme from S Express”, it then becomes the conclusion of the panel with “into thin Air “. Thin air. Although this record would not like that, I’d’s not betray you.” it’s Because “I want to be a Pet shop Boys. (7.5) Oliver Polak
About the Author
Oliver Polak is a comedian and writer. Even in his last book “The Jewish Patient” Jochen Distelmeyer played a significant role; last Polak was with his solo program “Supersad” on tour. His eponymous column appears in the “world”. Polak lived in Berlin
The Last Shadow Puppets -. “Everything You’ve Come To Expect”
(Domino / GoodToGo, from April 1)
the most entertaining Bromance of Britpop is back! Alex Turner and Miles Kane, Buddy Sheffield, which are now both relocated to Los Angeles published, now eight years before her debut album “The Age Of The Understatement”. The plate, garnished with plushy opulent string arrangements by Owen Pallett, was an inside joke, a tribute to Scott Walker and Burt Bacharach and the melancholic bubbling Orchesterpop sixties. Turner, full time singer and songwriter of the Arctic Monkeys, was able to prove at the time that he compositionally and melodically much more does it, as a few cheeky rock numbers. And buddy Kane built his own solo career on the success he Shadow Puppets on, with moderate success with critics.
Not likely enough, the two have now added a second plate, which had no longer expected after such a long time. Insofar as the unique advances and Come-ons that of a colleague of the American “Spin” magazine Kane the album title as tongue-in-cheek is to be understood, had to endure the interview. wanting to play down Without any improper, sexist behavior: The assumption that this correlated press day-Fatigue unhappy with cultural Humor differences between Britain Ladism and political correctness American expression is already very close. Nevertheless, Kane apologized obediently with a letter in the angwiderten colleague. He and Turner dreaming apparently not only musically (and in some ribald texts) in a libertärere time 40, 50 years ago, they dress well as yacht-rock lounge lizards and behave just as greasy – in this case fatales RPG seen from the PR standpoint. Or maybe not: Previously was more rock’n’roll? You bet. no longer caught
Like the Seventies habit in real life, the music, there are little to complain about: Once again, strings arranger Pallett the secret star of this collaboration, its lyuxuriösen guestroom raise already gelungende pop songs like “Miracle Aligner” transcend “Dracula’s Teeth”, “Pattern” or the sumptuous title track of current trends and also let them each time connection. Because Kane and Turner, older and wiser, this time no longer are content to as close as possible to come to the Venerable (Walker) -Original as yet in the opener “Aviation”, especially Turners now always unverkennbarere handwriting appears repeatedly between Poznan and antics through, whether in quick “Bad Habits” or sweet “Sweet Dreams TN” or “She Does the Woods”, which could be with other instrumentation on an Arctic Monkeys album.
“Everything You’ve Come To Expect” is, in all its baroque, probably by far the most relevant British indie rock album of the year. And if one does not take it, like his protagonists too seriously, makes it even more fun. (8.0) Andreas Borcholte
The Last Shadow Puppets – “Everything You’ve Come to Expect “
Moderate -” III “
(Monkey Town / Rough Trade, from 1 April)
” Why do I have to hide in the forest of my consciousness “asks Sascha ring at the beginning of the new Moderate-plate” III “:” I would so much out of the woods “! These calls from the gently rustling treetops of interiority a cuckoo quietly “cuckoo”, and a bobbin lace as on rotten trunks Beat does Gnuckel-di-unk-and-gnuckel-di-unk .
Trees, bushes, animals and their sounds are recurring motifs in the third plant of the Berlin electro pop trio Moderat. In addition to making music under the name ring apparatus still belongs to the otherwise rather known in the art of research Gebollers become duo Modeselektor, Gernot and Sebastian Szary Bronsert. Already on their first plates “I” and “II” Moderately have tried on a mitsumm- and schunkel joyful major event variant of every imaginable club music styles. With special consideration of the so-called post-dub or Jammer-Step
It is the same on their new business: competent zerknickertes Synkopengeklicker and cervical way toasty droning basses she creams with thick Stadionpop-pathos, to Sascha Ring sings mostly in frog way darned self-doubt Style mean Chris Martin; will it dramatically, it falls as seriously in the head voice when he squeeze a strong hand to the testicles around.
The second piece, “Running”, unfolds over vocoderisierten and then artfully battered vocal shards as they last used the Austrian Jammer-Step Barde SON as Signature Sound. In the third piece “Finder” ghostly atomized Gewinselfetzen à la James Blake are provided with an atmospheric hoppel ends house beat; in every sixteenth clock – that’s the trick – turn Moderate bass out and the heights inside. Tempo and temperature can be consistently ranked as medium denote that dramaturgies follow alteuropäisch-proven first-is-it-quietly-then-it-Loud principle.
I especially like the penultimate track “Animal Trails”. Here the hectic clatter and lace is accompanied not only by backward abgespieltem Glöckchengeklingel and half grumbling, half farting bass, but also by one of those artificial Domestic sounds you – older readers will remember – especially in the seventies very much little by turning of cans produced where then slowly herrunter skidding flask the air squeezed out a series of holes, which, depending on their size, arrangement and number of optional came a sheep or Kuhstimme. These cans are therefore referred to as mowing or Muhdosen. Among the electropop trio the presence Moderate found an individual voice; in the genre of massenbegeisternden mowing or-Muhdosenmusik they are artistic leader without question. (4.3) Jens Balzer
About the Author
Jens Balzer is Popredakteur and deputy features editor at the “Berliner Zeitung”. Demächst “A panorama of contemporary pop.” (Rowohlt Berlin)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith appears his book – “Ears”
(Western Vinyl / Cargo , from 1 April)
as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith once got her Buchla music easle, she was in a short time so absorbed by the elktronischen “music easel” that she forgot smooth, another album their indie folk band Ever Isles take. Who wanted to do vile indie folk if there was to discover so many new sounds and noises! “Ears” is named after the widely acclaimed “Euclid”, which only last year appeared Smiths second album with whimsical, nature amorous Ambient music. There is a third album, “Tides”, which was originally composed for yoga purposes, so we include it here times not. Stop, do not stop reading just because I wrote Yoga! There still come right whales!
Smith grew namely on the north west coast of the United States on an island in, from which one can operate prima Orca-watching. The region is also known because of the redwood rainforests very hazy and foggy, so quickly adjust nature-mystical feelings. War “Euclid” still trying drift in primeval forest spirits feelings with hard physics (and some nice thumping tracks) to be primed so raises “Ears” now from last valid.
The Buchla console (synthesizers should not man’s not call because inventor Don Buchla, can in constant competition with adversaries Robert Moog, insisted that one thus imitate not only natural sounds synthetic, but create entirely new) is again helpful. The spherical modulations and oscillations adds Smith fluttering, shimmering woodwinds and between Pharoah Sanders and Steve Reich vibrating, meditative gospel ends jazz vibe. In Smith sings with a voice that in the best moments ( “Wetlands”, “Rare Things Grow”) Karin Dreijer Anderson (Fever Ray, The Knife) recalls, in the dullest ( “Arthropoda”) to Enya.
Inspired she was strongly influenced by the films of the Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, especially of “Nausicaä” from 1984, in which a post-apocalyptic mushroom forest covers the earth. On a journey through such a jungle of new, futuristic shapes and sounds will kidnap “Ears”. Sounds first pretty esoteric, clear, but if you manage to immerse themselves in pieces like “Envelop” which, repetitive and enchantingly, actually capable one to wrap in a warm, scented sea salt leaves cocoon, such resentments are suddenly very egal.Für the holidays maturity. (7.2) Andreas Borcholte
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