Frozen - in the lack of ideas

Mando Diao - that is a comet that burns for a long time and now, appropriately, comes with an album on the market, which calls itself "Frozen". Actually, I have the tape once very much. She was an original, distinctive and had style. Even the green album "Never seen the light ..." fit in their scheme and had class. One made me suspicious, however: In Sweden, where felt every second person plays a musical instrument and any third party ever formed a band himself, never made the guys really to the top. Neither there were serially chart success, yet they evacuated from Awards. Probably it is estimated in the country in which virtually everyone is gifted English, just those artists more that remain faithful to the mother tongue and make international mass-market music. Even ABBA were initially perceived as scrap-pop band and were at their compatriots until the eternal cult status, as they had become a showcase for Sweden worldwide. Mando Diao have their origin musically, visually and rather denies the fundamental gesture against. You came in handy for the good reputation of the Swedish pop / rock music, but they would rather be an international, all home-capable tape. Works for the radio stations and arenas in Europe and the English-speaking world. With "Dance With Somebody", they have achieved this goal basically. Congratulations! For me, their rise is also gone at this point to the end. The freshness and originality extinguished. The few new ideas of the last albums made little hope, again to hear something grandiose of them one day.

With "Infruset" now is their final swan song in the CD players. Why? - Simple: The dubbing of poems is a basic musical training. So one begins to compose himself. So you put the basics in order to later write his own songs and to develop its own identity as a musician. When a band with several million records sold goes back to that level, I understand that as a confession of lack of imagination. Who would applaud an album when Tokio Hotel set to music poems by Sarah Kirsch? Because they could be even argued so fervently! It remains an absurd thought. No: What Mando Diao offering here is a declaration of bankruptcy. A rejection of one's own creativity. If they claim that it is easier to sing in Swedish, because you did not have to think about this, I ask myself: Why then did you not write your own lyrics? For me this album is mainly a middle finger to the Show older colleagues of Kent - the eternal rival to win the favor of the Swedish audience. While Mando Diao have sold records worldwide, Kent were in Sweden to the cult band: Celebrated for its international sounds and their vaunted as a national Dichtgut texts. Did the men Dixgård and Norén: "We can do!"? At his own texts it was not enough anyway. Instead had to serve an established poet Gustaf Fröding vs. Joakim Berg. Professional vs. Semi-professional - that should be enough. Plus one serving spontaneously rehearsed music. Finish is a Swedish-language album, which people buy in Germany, Great Britain and other countries. "Good morning, dear people of Kent, so it goes with the success!" And what do the critics and eternal whiners in our own country? Or rather: Who dares to scratch Fröding on literary monument? - Of course, no. Instead, only praise for the Swedish language Rememorieren this artist. Who would admit to have never read anything by him, if even raving Mando Diao from him?

Only against this background one can form a final judgment of "Infruset". But for me as well, their music alone - with their inertia, minimalism and uncertainty - to shy away from buying. Good rock music in Swedish is something else. This is Kent. When Mando Diao is sufficient at best a poor imitation. What you hear on "Infruset", thousands of Swedish young bands have done better. And who can abgewinnen these texts something that would logically also be on Swedish pop. Do you notice something? - The whole thing does not fit the front and back together! Who this album 5 stars certifies should rather go again in itself: Forgive your sympathy points for the band or evaluated her, what is at stake here: the album "Infruset".