Surprisingly & recommended!

I think I speak for many die-Beckmann fans when I say that he has not made it our business always easy in recent years. Hooked by its new wave-influenced beginnings, I am him happy in his (signature styling!) Peak period in the early Romantic-punk / goth scene (The Cure would without him nor been unthinkable as Arcade Fire) followed and was also his - for that time - absolutely bold grunge anticipation with total conviction. His trips to the Grindcore made me a bit more difficult then, but with a few years distance, I have to admit that just has passed the test of time excellently its Stockhausen adaptation. That visionary Beckmann his time was far ahead, deny even the toughest of his former critics no longer seriously.
What then, however followed was an - private as artistic - losing streak, in which one increasingly got the feeling Beckmann would only publish new albums to fulfill the contracts. Some inspired moments still had his Doom Metal / Euro Dance crossover project, but after that - I freely admit - I bought himself his current Output only from a sense of duty. The splashing at the end completely listless and meaningless out of the speakers - Ballermann for Emos! Last creativity seemed then completely dry, you only saw him occasionally haunted by obscure TV shows, well hidden in the night program, a shadow of himself. I could not bear that comforted me with his music, sad about the inglorious end of a great artist but full Dankbarbeit for what he had given us everything.

And now he has done what he does best, always was, and contrary to expectations, does not it: He surprised us all! Retreaded Outwardly, he has salvaged its main virtue from the old days to today: its ability to break boundaries, ignoring conventions and seemingly effortlessly to define new genres. What still looks on the cover by age mildness and Biedermeier, turns out to be already on the first pass as a radical reinterpretation of the Prog-chanson tradition. From the first note is clear: Here musiziert one who has no need to rely on any heroes, on the contrary. At its still existing (or in TV-exile ?! reawakened) claim to be the one self, the other called Beckmann leaves no doubt. (And indeed, let the homage of Avicii to Van Morrison is not long in coming, even Brian Wilson is said to have already expressed praise.) This is not only a return to form, which is a reinvention!
For once I have to even the embarrassing professional indie Hipsterbart by Spiegel Online agree, who said, mutatis mutandis, that this is the album that Pink Floyd's "Animals" was supposed to be! (A little smile I had on this reference then, however, already given the mitabgebildeten on the cover "band members"; -) ...)
In short, anyone who even slightly interested and new soundscapes opposite is open to real music, I would "BASV" Highly recommended!

Not quite, I can imagine how the new material is to be implemented live. But I rely on skill and coolness of the Master. My Ticket I any case already - that is exciting, people!