Album and band are touted with the promise of here would 20s swing and electric Mucke combined - both styles of music, I appreciate very much, and imagine a successful combination very attractive before. The emphasis here is on "successful" because what the band presented here is more than a little arable.
First of all, the actual swing percentage is by no means the dominant, trendsetting aspect of this music, but exhausted the very most from occasional swing elements that are woven into a rather simple electro-soundscape - for a quick one Barpiano as a brass-Keyboard. A real creative portion of the band is barely perceptible, instead one has time and again one has the impression of hearing created with little effort remixes.
For long stretches, the album offers at most swing way tinged synth arrangements that you could sell as easily next 0815-pop song in a different formation. "Maniac" is a perfectly ordinary (and very tiring) Electric number whose only Swing-share is a vocal that could identify a lot of imagination as a chanson-way. "The Dirty Side of the Street" - in my opinion still the best song of the album - is little more than a double of played Boosts BigBand song, and this is strongly reminiscent of the intro melody of the Muppet Show.
Anyone who wants to like this approach called minimalism, I daresay, the band wanted to just not make an effort: Especially in the second half if the already very sparse powder is fired, the album degenerates into a series of vierminütig then rattling Drumcomputer- loops, over which one has sporadically thrown a handful of faded 20's samples.
The narrow musical range could have been offset by a skillful vocal use again, but again, the band holds back - just two pieces have clear, undistorted vocals on, otherwise pervades the album over long distances tinny-unintelligible murmur, which is less listening when that one accepts it as a mere part of the commotion in the background.
I'm sure this album will also find his lover, I only regret that I can not be one of them, and just want to put this review each his heart, not to rush to judgment, but before purchasing one that is listed auditions lead to heart: Myself this disc has long stretches cold left not because I could not do anything with the two main musical ingredients, but because they were combined so listless in my opinion.
Already after the first hearing I did not feel the urge to listen to the album again, got it but then did anyway, and finally within these 54 minutes, the one or the other out part that will satisfy, or which can be described as generally original. But something that takes that leaves a listen up, I have not found. And the latest in the third run, it takes the sound carpet hardly notice.
