Green Day count to 3 ...

... And start all spoke well versed with the "Uno", or rather the first part of an album trilogy, which will be completed in the coming months by "Dos" and "Tré". The surprise on the part of the fans was great, especially as a singer Armstrong & Co. more and more information leaked; so is "Uno" is the perfect soundtrack to prepare for a party, at "Dos" then you're at the party and "Tré" You agree then the subsequent chaos on; "Uno" was touted as power pop, while "Dos" was going more in the direction garage rock and "Tré" was finally epic.
Big promises waiting to be fulfilled first. So now is logically the first the one in front, the power-pop album, which should bring in a party mood. At the same time it should lead "back to the roots", ie to Green Day's sound mid-nineties, on albums like "Dookie", "Insomniac" and "Nimrod", build. At this time my doubts were already considerable. I must say that I have come to appreciate Green Day in particular by "American Idiot" and even three years ago, when you have the right puffed "21st Century Breakdown" published, defended. But "Oh Love", the first single from "Uno", the expectations did not seem to do justice and needed a few more runs before it clicked.
So now is the entire work before and it can be once noted: "power pop" is true, but "Dookie" and "Uno" have about as much in common as peanuts and berries: supposedly one and the same kind, but the a rather hard, hard to chew and leads in some allergic reactions that others soft and sweet. "Uno" which is music that can run between David Guetta and Silvermoon radio loose that one time also plays to his parents who then have to admit that the "true n bit noisy, but is quite nice catchy". After selling millions of CDs, tours sold out arenas and in front of a regular place in all music awards you can stop also just have fun times. And to have Green Day obvious: detached from all claims and parent intentions they deliver a dozen smooth produced pop songs from that go bluntly into your ears: In "Nuclear Family" of the foot and the head bobs rapidly with, at "Carpe Diem" then comes the rest of the swaying and the latest in "Let Yourself Go" jumping in the room around and wants to be in a mosh pit. On the plus side, then are some feel-good songs, but unfortunately with each other and the idea of ​​older albums too often a "This I know but" cause-moment. Thus, at the end with Gutwillen half board entirely convincing, the rest is more suitable for long road trips, where you can always focus on any sophisticated arrangements or hidden sound experiments themselves. Understandably, this is now many fans too little, eventually some to strawberries are allergic.
Stay at the end of a few unanswered questions: is "Dos" the party for which you want to be animated by "Uno"? If the "1" as in sports merely the first step to slowly give in position before with "2", the voltage rises and it really starts with "3"? Or one is in January because three albums, the one suggested by the old saying, which is less but more often !? Had there been an album well done?
We will see ...