There is no recipe, you'll get not off the Bitter

Chakuzas new album is THE event of the year in the area of ​​German music. "Magnolia" was outstanding, a nearly incredible Cut opposite the ersguterjunge-time, extremely honest and insistently, but with "Exit" Chak has gone one better.

Although musically reminds Reduced in his music still in "Magnolia", but the minimalist electronic arrangements has Chakuza replaced by refined, sparsely but carefully instrumentalized indie rock. Very classic placed with guitar, bass and drums, very different this time - and there are really good, melodic choruses here as "hub" or "light", which was previously at him rather scarce. What remains is the oppressed, a little querulous nuschelige and chanting. Together they combine to create a unique, unmistakable style.

Thematically he stayed with his great content: disappointment, loneliness, lost dreams, lack of meaning in life. Even more than before his drinking problem is brought to the fore, it runs now through every song and is supported by him even more open, but also resigned to the outside. That he largely endures his life only in a drunken stupor, was already on "Magnolia" a dominant theme, "Exit" is even clearer - although Chak currently emphasizes that it is much better than going to the Magnolia-time him. His lyrics speak a different language, the Standing windscreen bottle ("headwind") about the excessive antrinken against a meaningless life ("hub") to suicidal thoughts ("1000 things") provides Chakuza in this direction all at.

And where is the way out, "Where is the bes ******** Head", which he desperately searches the theme song? Cheap answers supplies "Exit" not but todtraurige but very interesting texts in which you can still find new facets also the tenth hearing. I am excited to see where this album Chakuza leads and what will come next. Certainly something new because Chakuza does not stop, the retirement brings him nothing as he sings at one point. For the moment, but we have even a big hit, from which we can remember for a long time ...