... A clear slating are, and let's face it, the killer would have been like made for it. There are quite a few who could not stand before their first album "Hot Fuss" - was not me so I found them even very well done, even if the pun "Soul / Soldier" was very marginal. In "Sam's Town", the second release, I had a lot more problems. Apart from two or three successful songs like "When We Were Young" and "Read My Mind" 's been a lot of third-rate material, it was synthetic, bombastic, but not interesting. One had the feeling that they wanted to make or break the whole big thing land, but did not really know the means by which it was to create. Shortly thereafter, they trespass on the soundtrack of Anton Corbijn "CONTROL" fatally in "Shadowplay" by Joy Division, which was expected to be powerful in the pants. Well, now, "Day & Age". A Mega hermaphrodite it has become a fast-paced mix of styles, which has no equal. Rarely there has hardly been a record that so driven citing examples in the tip has like this album and like it or not, whether it likes it or you know absolutely nothing to do with kitsch, glam and pose - can the guys a certain courage not deny. Although they still do not know where's going, but they are to go and the very colorful program. The first single, "Human" is the sweetest variety Zuckerpop, to the Pet Shop Boys would not have done better. But with "Can not Stay" them quite loosely, swinging Schunkler with harp (!), Saxophone (!!) and marimba (!!!) has been successful. "Joy Ride" turn varies between Franz Ferdinand and the Village People - a dance floor bangers very first variety, respect! You have to dislike, but should listen to, this crazy album anyway. The slating comes then stop later ...
