I am very disappointed with the new album of the band and I must have now finally give up hope that Karat will be more than one Oldyband who must serve 90 percent of their concerts with titles that are older than 30 years to exist in front of the audience yet to. The albums paler and the first two-reunification concoctions were from mid-1980, were somewhere between pale produced pop and pop and almost no song that had to endure. With "The gift of time" and "Balance" are the albums more edgy without but only to provide a real hit. Although the restart with Claudius Dreilich as a singer was "moving on", but brought little freshness and sounded pale. Again just nice numbers, smooth and without a song, you had to have heard. If you only hoped that the orchestra album "Symphony" would once again helped to return to old strengths, is now gone. The band could be almost anything songs "alien writing" and trim on current radio unit sounds. This is between pop numbers and ballads that often slides into hit songs like "You can change the world", which could be hummed by Helene Fischer. Sometimes you will not shake the feeling that the many quiet numbers serve to avoid overloading some powerful voice of Dreilich. Every now and then one practices in anthemic tones ("Say, how long"), but that is as catchy as soon forget. The predicate "Rock Band" squander the guys here almost permanently, and say they have nothing. Mostly it comes to relationship-Hin-and-forth, and you might think wistfully of old songs like "Puppets" or "The Ship of Fools", or to the lyrical eccentricity shed of "Swan King" and "The Albatross". Many guest authors and guest musicians make a better album, but if you then trim it to streamlined. Where is real quality here, where the lifeblood and especially where is the power? I demand no album sounds like it comes from 1978, but that does not stop but to show that you plump said, has eggs in his pants. In interviews the boys from Karat like to emphasize their attachment to the audience why they no longer show it in their music. From Trio Swillms Kaiser Herbert Dreilich here is not even a shadow to be seen and you want to slowly but surely, that the band again K! calls. This "soul ships" are almost all kidnapper.
