Published in 1999, the German punk band "But Alive" their latest album "Hello Endorphin" and suggested for the first time significantly more pop sounds on. Two years later founded bandleader Marcus Wiebusch with drummer Frank Tirado-Rosales and three new band members (Erik Langer, Lars Wiebusch and Reimer Bustorff - the names must be already) "Kettcar" and leads this development with "you and how much from your friends?" over. From Punk has adopted itself. Not, however, by the textual ingenuity, the already But Alive (which, incidentally, were honored by the Visions zweifalhaften compliment the "Oasis of the German punks" to be) has awarded. Never pseudo intellectual, but always clever and original. It's no wonder that we "go and yes you can and we will then say how it was" on offer in Kettcars opener "full distance" not enter and continue listening. Because despite textual abstraction we never twist eyes. Not when Wiebusch at the beginning of "Throat bridges" asks: "I want to live and die like a toast in the rain?" and even if he reports in "being there": "I hear how the butter in the pan applauded". So just yet: "We remain to the very end" is in the Schlusnummer "I thank the Acadmey" properly diagnosed. In between, we are brought to laughter and to tears. "When caught laughing" - how true. And if now is previously reviewed, as this would be a text to test drive online, we can also give a voice to the same again. After all, whether Kattcar now regret the embittered man from "balcony over" or "Beyond the Bikini Line" itself, drive test online diagnositiert right: Most of all you want to hug the boxes. Most probably in the potential Genreationshymne "crying in Taxi". To write a text on a legal separation is not a new idea in the world of music, but rarely doing so much wisdom is processed. "It's just the fear that barks when a kingdom is divided into two almost exactly equal parts." and "Who does what it promises, if he does not believe what he says? I asked first!". We do not want to admire the same bodies that have the other reviews already used as evidence. And all of these texts, which could fill whole Poeseialben are surrounded by music. Of Course. Far from punk, which we have already clarified. But what then, anyway? Pop? For Sure. That must be enough probably, if one is not involved in the cramped attempt to introduce terms like "German Emo". "German Rock" - for my sake. Perhaps, for the drawer fanatics among us "electronically tinged German rock with Lounge influences". Yes, I agree: we will stay with Pop. Much more important is the fact that this music is exactly the right setting for the now sufficiently admired texts. That would be a compliment enough. Although Kettcars harmonies are simple and they do not provide musicologist before an analytical task in life, but they sound easy, carefree and touch. And as if one is equal to cling even more tightly to the box and do not let go until the very last note of "I want to thank the Academy." No wonder, because while Kettcar commute nimbly between sluggish ballads and spirited rock and pop Hmynen as if they had never done anything else, the atmosphere breaks never expire. An atmosphere that is somewhere between happiness and depression, and we are towards the end but quiet a bit cheesy, it feels just alive .. And thus the instrumental is certainly kept very simple and already after a few passes of the CD, there is nothing left to discover music. But who will bother that if he should listen for such beautiful melodies and lyrics and for the first time in ages has the feeling that this record would have been included specifically for his personal attitude towards life? My butter anyway donates thunderous applause.
