Gold-like

What's that on this album? Avantgarde, Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Rock, Pop? Yes, Pop, it is always, if no other category is so right and when the disc came out after the Beatles. Rock it is, if an electric guitar emerges, Hip Hop, when the beats are especially bold, Soul, when the singer lies down on the stuff and start in the right places to Pienzen, radio, when the rhythm of whips and avant-garde, the whenever the melody times leaves the familiar line, at least here and there.
Well, then the new album of picture book is exactly everything. But in those drawers album fits precisely. Comparisons in the music are always disastrous, because they can hurt more than they bring. At the most sinister is the F-comparison, the storybook is currently constantly saddled. - Just because they, more or less Vienna are Austrians and for the avant-garde, the Funk, Rock, Soul and so on? That's pretty arbitrary and quite little at that.
The comparison brings someone who storybook has not heard, and nothing at all. But it is also difficult to talk about music. Last week is the editor of a major weekly newspaper tripped over his own self-love, because the thought storybook like unto while forgot to write something about the music. Or he did not forget it? - But why is it so difficult to talk about music, put it to other warmly?
Well the answer is as simple as difficult because music is much more than words can describe. Music is trapped feelings. Rhythm! Rhythm in the text is poetry and rhythm in music is melody. And music is all together. - Sure, any medium captures feelings. And movies, for example but much more. But they also take movies again anticipated. Anyone who was in love once in a book and then saw the movie, who knows it, this strange disappointment because it was not to see what they had anticipated reading.
In music it is different. Lets feelings still room. They even sparked feelings. - And what does all this have to do with this album?

This album is simply indescribable.
It is indescribably cool. It pops indescribable. It is indescribably varied. It tears with indescribable and irritated sometimes indescribable. It is also incredibly enigmatic and at the same time incredibly accessible. These are incredibly rare mixes. It promises due to its mysteriousness to make incredible long fun. It is indescribable state. It is skillfully indescribable. Skillfully recorded. Skillfully copied in so many unbescheiblich models that they no longer can be seen. Skillfully developed its own style. Skillfully in all details. In love almost. Which band writes the title in gold on the cover? Which band puts the wheels in gold envelopes? Which band writes neither the sides nor the title as the label that you have to look twice or lard on the cover? Which band is so self-confident to let the blog entry of enthusiastic fans in a lyric with incorporated? Of course, first it seems vain, the enthusiastic words of fans quoting himself. Publishers and managers make all the time. But what 'artist' is actually so that about it and frankly admits that this enthusiasm, this praise grabs him really. Which artist does not look as if the praise indeed pleased him, but he reckoned basically. Flirting is the usual excuse. Storybook have no need. What inspires you, what she grabs that comes into song. Basta.

And what those texts they pack an as that raushaut Maurice Ernst in various colorations. Enigmatic, poetic, simple, elegant and ironic. He stops at nothing, no falsetto is embarrassed. He is not even too bad to send up his own name when he "Schick Schock" sings the song: "Call me Maurice Antoinette !." Finally, he settled already in OM vorwitzigerweise and quite en passent even the F-theme with a (first) scarce Jeanny quote. Peng.
And what she was for riffs pack into the songs. So simple, so well as with the fist on the eye.

It has long been unclear how the album could be. Unbearable exciting almost. Perhaps also sent. Who knows.
The first two albums were rougher, Guitar Driven. Skillful indie rock music with extraordinary texts, but not so accentuated. The finest silk EP, whose pieces were now part of the album was clearly dominated by the number Maschin About the Wahnsinnsriff and the recently mad casual, überakzentuierten singing. In comparison, the other pieces of finest silk and paddling had almost faded. The preliminary Videos OM and Spliff were again in a new way casual, but it just drew no clear line for the album from.

But with the album she's there, the various recorded threads, they flow together to form a line. - And the fear, the air would be to get the finest silk, was completely unfounded, fortunately. - The line of the album is simple, it pops, it sparks, hoppt it, it rocks, it Soult, but above all it haut rein. Philipp Scheibl percussion is tight and crisp added that it is a real pleasure. The other "Sounds" - it can be bad to say different, because Michael Krammer guitar synths the approaches sometimes damn close to, and the synths are so many times on guitar damn close - are, as well as Peter Horazdovskys pulsating bass, all also very tightly organized. With a lot of air in between is all lined up in a rhythm dance, as he really is rarely heard. The feat has been successful. Maschin is wrapped in cotton wool and not the contrary. Whether Maschin will remain the top piece in the long term remains to be seen but it did get a few numbers on the side, who also washed and arouse curiosity, only times they know more precisely. Enough distraction from the numbers already known.

A rousing rhythmic album that but affects all violence since kindled the assembled team, nevertheless never overloaded and therefore so incredibly airy how remains elegant. Great.

The twelve inch output is well mixed. The comparison with the CD I can not do, but it definitely sounds more dynamic than the more compressed CD of finest silk EP. Facilities is still to supplement already been said above that the double vinyl disc comes in gatefold cover, the individual disks are ideally thin cardboard held (in gold) and dressed neatly. The vinyl is hard and so flat to be as non-corrugated LPs have (but this is now by no means self-evident). My copy is in side B is not so top centered as side A (!?) And not entirely without residue. The vinyl is pressed but free of bubbles and very clean.
There is also a download code for a 320 record.
Overall design and choice of materials is very loving and really worth compared to the alternatives the Twenties.

Listen and listen again. And not talk - sorry - but auditions.