A unique mixture of countless genres - with a lot of passion, honesty, and swing!

It has taken. Several years promised Ferdinand Sarnitz, better known by his stage name Left Boy, his loyal fans an album. As he should be, a little eccentric, diverse, intelligent and always to party. And what can I say, after 4 years of production scarce succeed the good Ferdinand this project with almost absolute perfection.

Permanent Midnight prances leichfüßig by so many facets of hip-hop and pop music, as there have not been able throughout their work time on all albums most artists.
With great fanfare he goes on in Left Boy's Coming, a tendency which one was allowed to watch on Caspers Track Jambalaya and many Ami tracks. He sampled again across the musical landscape such as in That's How Much and ebebso he builds again excellent mood, to 10 AM or even the already familiar Get It Right and Security check can hardly keep still.

Above all, though, and that is for me the most important reason for the perfection of the album, this time we hear a narrative, doubting, pragmatic Left Boy, especially beyond its already known tracks.
Whether he now faces the most influential female figures bows in Marie, That's How Much and Everything Flows in his life and these caresses verbally challenged in Star and Stoned at its earthiness or self-critical in Permanent Midnight, Time and Again and Black Dress its usual side relations under the microscope takes, Left Boy never loses Permanent Midnight claimed to make them mighty partying fire, but also tells directly or indirectly again highly authentic from his life.

What at first and certainly also still easily goes down the second Listen, is the production quality and the inventiveness of the album. At some point, you really feel the years of fine tuning, which was carried out on each track. Everyone, but really each track is to match the content in the right places louder or quieter, gets Bass growth, faded briefly, is faster or slower, the sample will change. In short, even the instrumentals tell the story of each track at least partly independently, form and content are continuously consistent.

Before I decided to buy the CD (am otherwise rather the iTunes man, but this time wanted to explicitly Support), was my biggest doubt to the extent previously unknown tracks.
4 pieces were known well before release, Security Check was the first second single, the moment is just one (admittedly incredibly sweet and excellent in the album schema matching) 10-second interlude, so 14 tracks effectively only 8 are really new or 9 when Security Check is still counting.
Have to pay including shipping 16,99, has seen in retrospect though more than worth it, but some excessive sum might deter newbies yet.
In addition, the tracks also have no common thread, so that the transitions between topics and concepts are not fluent but choppy. This small point could optimize for the next album yet, it disturbs me personally but little.

However, the small number of new tracks tend and a lack of universal concept remain my only two criticisms of Permanent Midnight and can not begin to stop me, the excellent work to certify its deserved 5 stars.
Ferdinand Sarnitz aka Left Boy has a total of everything right and so floskelhaft it sounds, the wait was really worth it.
Permanent Midnight is outstanding and produced with infinite attention to detail, deals with very personal and quite intimate sides of Ferdinand and shows a rapidly matured artist. Absolute buy recommendation!