HAMMER DISC!

The Broilers 2007. Where do you stand? Where will it go? No band of the Oi! & Punk area has more musical quantum leaps in the last decade made as the Broilers from Dusseldorf. A continuous further development has always been what the band has been identified. Experimentation and the courage for independence stands tall on their flags. According to a lot of criticism - mainly from the Proll-Oi! Stock - they have to put up with. How justified and constructive it is, everyone has to make for themselves. Impress the boys and the girl let them at least not - and that's a good thing! For bands that do not evolve and turn over and over again, even in the district, there are already too many. The Broilers are different. They are the ones making surprises. This time, too. For what at Vanitas "will be delivered, is truly something special. The new album is the 2004 album LoFi" only partially comparable. As one is grateful that one the 2 œ years until the new album with the split single that you have published together with Volxsturm 2006 bridged. There before you could perform an interim status to heart. The music was still experimental than usual, somehow softer, but all the more horny. Particularly criticized was that Sammy, put the vocal organ of Broilers, very high vocal register on the day. Now almost a year has passed again and it is a further advancement of the band felt.

Vanitas "ties in with the Goodfellas ..." to split single. Compared to LoFi "the sound is a bit softer - even playful, but is at least as good over his ear and into the blood, the system should be turned up very loud and you should give the songs a few acclimatization runs until it is properly in the. have taken root ear canals. But unlike the last album is this time very quickly. With the LoFi "songs I could start anything at first instance, this time can be felt even on the first pass, that it is here to very hot stuff. Even Sammy uses his voice again in any form. The finely tuned ear, the listener gets musically inclined again the more essential because it was otherwise anyway the case. The bottom line is the typical Broilers punk rock, the view since the second album losers from different "sets the tone. Furthermore familiar stylistic devices such as the ska sound be reinstalled. Cris, who has recently joined the band to the music the keyboard to support the organ and so on, provides a clear scent, which contributes a not inconsiderable part, the sound beyond any Proll-Oi! and Proll Punk catapult levels. Overall, the music is very mature, still independent , comparatively suitable for mass production, but without honesty lose. Everyone who is on the textual outpourings of Broilers, is again abkriegen the full program even when Vanitas ". The pathos is not too short, also text which could be printed as slogans on shirts (as instead the white flag will see you my middle finger ") are again plentiful and Jokus comes this time not too short (... Thank you for Hasselhoff and the Fall of the Wall "). During the song we ever go against "the youthful rebellion, respectively the scene sings, joins the opener back to concrete" worthy in the number of Großstadtromantik songs as a your city "or king of the district." What surprises me is that the Broilers on this album sing exclusively in German. Since one has experienced diverse English Excursions on the last recordings, I assumed that you continue also linked here - just as far as the international audience, it would have been advantageous. But this only shows once again that the Broilers generally set the right priorities - namely, to do whatever you Bock and not what would recruit more listeners.

In the first runs the package of songs of Vanitas looks "a bit uniform. Only on closer listening, the strengths of the individual pieces emerge. Vanitas" will take time, but it is in accordance with a long residence time in the ears and in the facilities of the handset.

Although I have received only a promo version and thus not the final album. Nevertheless, you can already be a little an impression of the artwork. Sammy has the once again accepted and if only the cover and the Vanitas "lettering blow again all expectations. The cover picture shows a collage of a skull with a variety of knives, brass knuckles and an egg timer, which makes for a lot of interpretive leeway.

An intro and 18 songs with a playing time of 66 minutes has rich "Vanitas" up its sleeve. With such a mass of new songs and impressions, it is hard a fair picture of the album to gain after a short time.

So I leave it here for today. I do not rule out this time, after a few weeks that I again give my two cents on this album. Because then I'll probably have more intense impressions when listening after the third time.
So far I can the album anyway before all those who have no problem with the career of Broilers, fully recommend. The audience will grow again properly with this album. Let's see how it goes ... (sk)