Casper with xoxo - an album that was hyped in advance so that one could not around it, to listen to it. It was made and hooked that they had no chance to give the whole a chance as curious. No matter what kind of music you've heard before.
I hear normally not Hip Hop. On the contrary, I actually come from the punk and orient myself more towards hardcore. Despite all the media coverage of Caspers had stagnated recently so great that I especially as fans of German poetry and good, intelligent German lyrics in music, it could not help me, "xoxo" to give a chance. Even though I was "increasing pressure / see blood" in advance of only moderately impressed, has burst in the last week with "so perfect" the knot with me. This "Explosions in the Sky" beats over which he raps since. Thees Uhlmann called "Michael X" was ever written as the best song and dedicated the title track perhaps the best chorus that was ever used in a hip-hop song, if I as a layman may go so far. The VISIONS called the good man already in advance as a rescue of the German Hip Hop. Man, because one can not do otherwise. Casper. Casper. Casper. I'm a fan.
German Hip Hop's for the ignorant as a genre that is marked and burdened by many prejudices. As one thinks only of trashy Sido and Bushido blends that rap about sons of bitches and motherfuckers, Mercedes and the street and drug and gang bang. And then comes this Casper therefore, with a raspy voice that many a seasoned hardcore singer is expected to its knees and frees one of all the clichés and invites in the slightly depressing but somehow uplifting world of "xoxo".
XoXo is a personal record. She is vulnerable and aggressive. They provoked and thought-provoking. You can increase the pressure. And they convinced - hype or not. Benjamin Griffey, "the Casper the raps" hardcore background, catching up XoXo from the blow to the heart and brain. It might seem embarrassing XoXo easily when writing about his own past with the Father, about the suicide of a friend or a failed affair. That it does not, because the texts are so clever and attractively packaged that they all tattooed on your back and they should henceforth bear with their heads held high by the world. For this purpose this voice that leaves nothing to act embarrassed. After repeated by listening I can say that there is no track on XoXo that you really want to skipping. Even though I 'rises prints / blood seen "by not only was so impressed, but maybe it is simply because I do not even come from the hip-hop now. Meanwhile, I am happy about every song and wonder every time how fast the disk is gone through again.
The plate is this a cry of "Generation God is dead", which simply brings in 48 minutes everything to the point that currently employs us. It is deeply honest and never put on. Casper succeeds thus a feat that comes so natural that it does almost hurt. Maybe that have already tried many before him. If so, then it's never occurred to me. I know nothing of hip hop, but I know now that I know Casper. And I think that's enough for me.
On XoXo Casper is accompanied by his old hardcore band "Not Now Not Ever" which supplies the individual songs with beats and melodies that strike the perfect bridge between rock, hardcore and rap or hip hop for me. I feel completely at ease and canceled in this music. Understood and respected. As this plate would have an element of truth stored in its core, after which we all seek. No matter how much depressing effect on the first listening test: shit again, which here gives hope.
But here a bridge is built not only musically. Casper wins effortlessly, Kurt Cobain, Bon Scott, TuPac and bring Ian Curtis purely lyrical in a line. Tomtes Thees Uhlmann allowed to sing the catchy chorus of the title track. And by the way he quotes as a matter of course bands like Jawbreaker or even the German Turbostaat. At that moment I get rid of any stereotypes Deutschrap of giant members and bosses and pay tribute to the artist Casper.
XoXo is a farewell phrase and stands for "Hugs and Kisses". I know Caspers previous discography only fleetingly, but the album sounds like it was a swan song of earlier times, the light-heartedness of youth. A last look back to in between to look in the time ahead. "We are laughing in the rubble and feel free." This one line sounds as if you smash his whole past with all its worries to feel briefly free and then to look ahead. In a new era, in which everything can be "so perfect" when it finally permits.
Casper creates with this album for me the soundtrack of a generation that is losing the orientation at the present time. It is about fighting, died standing up; therefore, not to fall. It's about rebellion, it comes to depression and hope. "Depression has never been worn but is it so much." I am 19 and know this feeling and I am sure that I am not alone. And if you in eating all the crap in the world, then you still holding short pause. Breathe a short and looks around in all the debris that one sees around him. And then there is a clear, even if the world today still seems so cold, "Everything is perfect." No matter how "kuntergraudunkelbunt" all acts: "We are laughing in the rubble and feel free."
I thought 2011 was the year of hardcore and punk. In releases of bands like "defeater" "Touché Amore" or "Atlas Losing Grip" I have to adapt as die-hard fan. Casper comes with XoXo therefore, leaving a sound in the ear and a taste in the mouth, which teaches you a lesson. As already mentioned, XoXo bridges.
In 2011, we are no punks and hardcore kids more.
We are not a rapper, gangster or Raver.
In 2011, we are all Casper fans - and I kind of like the idea.
