an album as a complex attack on the beginning of the millennium rapidly emerging, superindividualisierte consumption consumer consumer society. The opener beitet once the appropriate associations with the consumption of pressure and its wake, powerlessness and the view in the window. Where's the demo version was a straightforward rocker yet, the / the listener is now welcomed by winged keyboards.
Everything is in flames takes out the speed with which This Boy is Tocotronic begins the plate and designs quoted an alternative image of the modern apocalypse behind the classic metaphor the song title.
It follows here is the proof a tempo change, including successful vocal effects. It is an ode to subcultures and denouncing the hunt for the latest consumer product ("the introduction of certain foreign Arts is the price").
on track 4's melancholy Hi Freaks it finally speaks out directly: "everything must be more abundant, we are never alone": the compensation of emotional deficits through consumption, the anonymous coldness of the city and its emerging hedonistic party culture ( "The money is ready, you have time today?" No, me neither. ") but also the security it offers and the need for it. On KOOK Tocotronic 1999 indicated to have the change of style away from the uncontrolled guitar noise, through to multi-layered synth arrangements. In Hi Freaks offers the band (for their circumstances) complex formulated and arranged political confrontations with the Germany, with which they can start so little. A squiggly hate speech, as the home track for the home But living here, no thanks! , which can be heard on the following album.
Guide me gently then dives into the world at first hand the narcotic effect of alcohol, drugs and goods consumption. At the end of the song then (absichtlich!?) wrong Italian.
A drowsy dawn rises from 'the song, who wrote on their own. He just came to us. " Free Hospital satisfied over 90% of the disabled radio track with the A-minor chord. It's drug trip, a situation in rehab, psychiatric against the depression of Grossssssssstadt? All possible interpretations, perhaps even nonsense.
cloud of ignorance takes again the inscrutable construct "Germany", with its regimented masses in the pedestrian zones. On
Update on the Trickster take Arne, Dirk and Jan then finally Farewell to the old Tocotronic 90s. Lotzow unmasking of trickster and presents himself the way from the clear announcements, complaints, and open despair that the texts of the 90 years that dominated the way to the momentous texts of the new millennium. "One thing is certain, 1:1 is now over."
All in all, they take but a bit too important and too serious and the androcentric of the album is also exaggerated. Still, very respectable, the audience can look forward to smoke and mirrors , January 2010.
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