Hip Hop Hip Hop is not always merely be

Insiders Casper is a term for a couple of years. With his work 'Towards the Sun' (which can be strangely acquire no more original to this day), he brought a fresh breeze in a slightly dusty genre and was already with his more rocking style and the very aggressive rasping voice the entire musical opposite of another Hip Hop 'revolutionaries' Marteria who could with his hypnotic album 'Fortunately in the future' achieve last year a surprise success beyond genre cliches a la Bushido. Casper toured last year with no album out by the clubs of Germany. This year it is different, because first concerts were laid already in nearly four times as large venues.

It has long been waiting for the new album, but where now 'MTV again plays music' (more or less) the disc, as had been promised at the former album track 'Casper BUMAYE', finally arrived. The opening track 'The pressure rises' by pumping so impulsively forward, only that one wonders where that boy has been the past few years only. With an ease he skips the genre limits not only, but it mixes incredibly skilfully, as if rock and rap has always been part of it. A clear first: With the genre nu metal, which should also combine rock and rap the early '00s, XOXO has absolutely nothing to do.

The lyrics are all written great and everyday phrases like 'you gives life only lemons, make lemonade' never seem unintentionally funny, but always honest and appropriate to the moment. Here, the album is almost too much of a good thing. The plate is Hip Hop, stadium rock, partly simply catchy pop (because a certain mass compatibility can be, despite the crazy mix, the whole not deny) and places genre-less, overproduced bombast that makes even the stadium rock look pale. But this own sound makes this record to one of these highlights of the musical year, with the quality you never expected earlier this year. Now I wish Casper those commercial success he has finally earned.

Whether the sibling intro, 'Up and Away, the great collabo' XOXO ',' Alaska ', or the melancholic' control / bedroom '' The quality is impressive and so there is not a single failure on the album. On the contrary, since this plate is growing and growing. After all, one is at first slightly overwhelmed with the soundscape, provided a classic Hip Hop plate is expected in approach. But this must be a good album and just relax doing. The listener ask! And that does XOXO nonstop and catapulted itself as the favorite throne for album of the year!