Only if it hurts, it's good

"Only if it hurts, it's good" - is a line of text in the new Rosenstolz album, which unfortunately - and this is its major weakness - anywhere really "hurt". That means: I am all too pleasing, smooth and audibly advised. One has settled down to the more or less permanent and melancholic style of recent albums, with the mass audience can obviously start most. Said evil: It's always the same sauce with slight variations. Although tastes many people, is also okay, but in the long run but a bit bland.

For a duo, like missed an outsider image, which extols his alleged nonconformity and his hatred of uniformity and monotony (the other text), this is not enough. Boldly it, sometimes to make one or the other song that breaks with expectations, the surprise, shaking up, a challenge and in the best sense of the word "hurt" would.

This risk no longer go Rosenstolz despite or perhaps because of their success, and I am sorry. That the duo is still looking like the album title promises, I can not see. Man has found his style and remains broadly. In this respect: mediocre.