German-language rock music currently polarized in every nook and cranny. And this with plenty of Tam-Tam! While the majority of loyal fans for weeks talking about the sense or nonsense of the upcoming Elvis Presley Live Reunion heads hot, an army of moralists controversial FAIR GAME openly declared war and BROILERS as greatest punk / pop hope the charts back rolls up ... sooo quiet and unspectacular, the small but fine "nostalgia for transforming tomorrow 'blossomed this year for the dark horses of the German rock poetry. Behind the pseudonym ERIK COHEN is no stranger hides - (! Jack Letten) However, the longtime frontman of Kiel Punk / pigs rockers Smoke Blow is on his first solo album as emotional as ever. Instead of directing the audience in sweaty Club at Massenpogo, ERIK COHEN convinced on this 12 tracker mainly with: incredible depth! If many artists say cocky, that music and lyrics always as a unit must be seen / heard (!), This is especially true for this album. Of course you can the pathos of numbers such as "Wolves", "cosmonaut", "fidelity heart" or criticize "In Motion", his touches here and there embarrassing ... but you can also just listen. Because when the handset goes into depth, then from time to time - with each Hördurchlauf! - More clearly understand how much honesty lies dormant in the lines. "Part of me wants to stay here, part of me wants to run away" ERIK COHEN sings in one verse of the great over number "Captain", and in fact is saying anything about the inner turmoil and self-doubt of a man, in his own struggle with himself and the meaning of life. "Nostalgia for the Future" is pure soul striptease of a Mid-Four Ziger ... lost in thought, with longings and visions that give hope for a golden future - almost a classic singer / songwriter-album! Again and again one is reminded of the musical turnaround of SOCIAL DISTORTION-bedrock Mike Ness, who returned his emotional side to the outside mainly in the last Output "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" ... at the same time a scurry the wonderfully abstract lyrical effusions of Berlin City Monkey (sic!) Peter Fox through his mind - a German musician, you can even find an inveterate rock / metal fan somehow good. Harsh Abgehnummern as "Omega Man" and "Chrome" would, however, probably at any WEISSGLUT disc ("Something comes into your world", "character") are able to. As a true Schleswig-Holstein ERIK COHEN used in his songs with great fondness northern German Waterkant metaphors (eg, lake, waves, harbor, sea, etc.) and shows on one's own, the connection to a region that has shaped him as a person. It is needless to mention that great numbers such as "light", "conductor", the aforementioned "Captain" or "sailing" (great!), Of course, all German rock fans in Freiburg, Munich and Nuremberg are likely fallen. Even if there Nordic salutation "Moin Moin!" will never be properly understood or always mistranslated. Conclusion: You can tell immediately how much warm energy and lifeblood of SMOKE BLOW-Fronter has put into his solo debut. An authentic album for thought, but also the always positive winking is to listen. A true sailor can finally shake anything. We recommend!
