I can not say that I'm a fan of the first hour, since my first album of Fiddler's Green in 2007 published "Drive Me Mad!" was. Then I have gradually acquired and found that every single album, actually, every single song, an individual atmosphere, its own style, its own message mediated all other hitherto appeared plates. The texts was noted that it came from the pen of a very gifted writer, musically everything was also very professional and it always looked as if a group of young men with an affinity to Ireland and Irish music had a lot of fun to what it because so fabricated. "Drive Me Mad!" was and is still my favorite album, not only of Fiddler's Green, but in general. For me it was the perfect mix of punk rock, Irish music, a bit of a party atmosphere and complex texts about this and that. The following album "Sports Day at Killaloe" laid Fiddler's Green in terms of party atmosphere and Gitarrenlastigkeit go one better, all had been rather designed so that you get drunk, mitgrölt and swaying to it - but it was not a bad album, because again found musical and lyrical complexity in many of the songs and the music anyway despite supplied ommer "Rockigkeit" was still versatile. From "Wall of Folk" I was a bit disappointed, since almost all the songs in the same style ("so somehow skirt with so'n bit Irish this höhö") and had the album sounded somehow artificial and far less complex as a whole. Agesehen of these was the "drunk you bawls, and swaying" aspect of its predecessor came here were more pronounced. Some songs still liked and overall "Wall of Folk" was quite solid.
Long story short: The growing party-heavy Schunkel aspects that act most likely to the roiling emotions fully drunken fathers in their midlife crisis response, have fully developed on the album "Winners & boozers" for negatives and ridiculous.
Musically, the album provides no stimuli. Many songs sound the same, some songs sound like those of the previous album ("Never Hide" has me very example of "Fields of Green" recalls). Almost every song has this driving, frantic speed that is matched exactly to the construction and Abhüpfen a roaring crowd. Constantly give the music an so this "fun, fun, LOS HAVE at last ALL SPAAAAASS AND Forget your troubles !!!!!" what I know of only the single charts and hit otherwise. Hardly a song has appealing and complex melodies and everything is much too forced "loose" and all are in a good mood, YEAH. I find that so annoying how these family fun entertainment in summer, the rumwirbeln all the time, giving the feeling that everything is so colorful and fun, although it is just plain boring and had no better ideas about. Exactly but I fear even with this album: For varied music Fiddler's Green may simply run out of ideas.
Lyrically the album is, with all due respect, quite a handle in the toilet. Negotiated some of the songs from the previous albums of exuberant alcohol consumption, has now really every song this topic, or either that or it comes to any unspecified "Girls". In almost every song comes at least once before the name of an alcoholic beverage at least once and the word "pub" or "Bar", alcohol consumption is not only glorified, but even glorified. "Buccaneer" and "Do not Look Back" both deal with most life-changing encounters in a bar or a pub, "Old Dun Cow" is a story about people who get drunk and thereby experience a lot, but not a bar or Pub, but a "public place". Congratulations for so much innovation and versatility in the selection of localities, where takes place the booze. Constantly "We Do not Care" create, "Raise Your Arms" and "Never Hide" either repetitive exclamations ("WE DO NOT CARE FUCKING, HAVE HERS NOW Got it?!?!") Or catchy nursery rhymes (" Raise your arms, raise your voice, raise your hand, make some noise ") a drunken sense of wellbeing, in which all is love, sway and nothing more evil each other thinking (at least as long as there is alcohol). "The More The Merrier" is a blunt juxtaposition of "the more so, the more of that" (my favorite line: ". The more I dive, the more I'm wet," Well, who would have thought) what after a short time is no longer funny, but only exhausting. "Song for the Living" is so simple, life-affirming, that it's just plain boring ("Shout out loud, take a ride, and of course not forget the PUB" etc. etc.). "No More Pawn" is similar to The More The Merrier, a blunt juxtaposition of things that would give such an apparently abandoned lover his mistress, if she stayed with him. It all starts with "I'll ..." and the text is acting according to the scheme "rhyme you, or I'll eat you." Hooray, you realize really how much time you have taken with these texts, because "getting drunk and fun just Harr Harr" is, after all, an issue that is more than 16 songs away should pick up every now and again, because there are so or has not a lot of potential. Solely "No Lullaby" and "Into the Sunset Again" break through this scheme, the former me musically is to schunkelig to make it really easy to find.
Well, a concept album over boozing so. Nice. I can not understand what Fiddler's Green were driven really to fabricate this album. Maybe they were drunk. Would already somehow close. Höhö.
Two stars gets the album anyway by myself. A grandiose for the song "Into the Sunset Again", which is the only neither schunkelig still afloat and rocky, but melancholic and profound, both musically and lyrically.
The second star will receive the album that the band members operate continues to be a very virtuoso playing and definitely show once again that they have mastered their instruments entirely. Add to this that it obviously had fun while producing the album, to notice the enthusiastic interjections during and between songs. That's ultimately what I always liked to Fiddler's Green: They had fun and were fully behind what they do. Of these, a lot of bands could learn a lot ..
In short, much too soft-heavy album with too monotonous and simple texts, but with the hope that as much fun and joy of it on the next album again could lead to something more "back to the roots".
