This was an absolutely disappointing shock as I listened to the blind amlifier bought for me. I need to go back a little. , , I'm a fan of the first hour. Not only had the quite exceptional created this great band on their Vorgaengeralben something new for me, no it feels even still with all Hördurchgaengen good. The concerts were refreshingly different ... The band gave themselves vital, as the sympathetic Boy Next Door; bubbly bubbly and close to the audience ... it was like a rejuvenating treatment. Now the new album .... what had happened in the meantime, one wonders where one finds a completely unexpected form messed up the previous sounds. The songs seem very verkrampft.Man bekommmt feel that the guys frantically tried again to try something new. One gets the feeling that everything was something funny recorded on click and this is not quite hinhaute. It is very cheap manufactures and inundated by pseudomarzialisch sounding arrangements which in turn stand again even worse by even worse other passages. The sound of the amplifier is provided so far to look at this disk in vain. If this had been the first Amplifier CD, you could write a great development. Here it is but unfortunately reversed. They seem to be very backward compatible. That all seems so listless. The listener gets the impression that a semi-professional band would like to prove. .... Funny. Well ... the good old plants still in my head I'm on the live gig to me incorporate the old days again. I also got the impression to have a completely different completely stiffened verkokste hochnasige Combo front of me. They did not look good, their faces were as expressionless as I never expected it. ..it was frappierend.Sie were visibly bored or fully finished. Fits up to the new "look". As a fan you felt by the new album and the concert properly treated disrespectfully in front. So according to the motto ... of you idiots down there we buy then ne new yacht. I am so very disappointed, because the songs of Amplifier were somewhere for me formative and I associate great times with it ... and now as a Murks-! I listened to just the opener of the new album coming in March. Possibly there is hope. Greeting