Jangle-Pop played a major role on the two-year-old debut of tenderness, the influence of bands like The Smiths was unmistakable. A song also seemed to negotiate Clever Morrisse’s disappointing trials and tribulations without giving any specific names. Pop songs, the second album of the quartet, looks a bit rough.
This applies to the “Vienna” earwig, “fear” and also the rocky title song. It can be interpreted as a complaint that musicians: today are forced to disclose privately and explain their lyrics: “Come on, say what you stand for / people want to understand / all the details to interpret yourself, so seldish.”
The band avoids uniqueness and prefers to be ambivalent. But you can feel what it is about: the lyrical self goes in search of the lost time. In the particularly melodic “Mixtape”, Andreas Fischer sings melancholy of attics and archived past, which has developed a life of its own. “Poor role model” sounds rather cheerful, but devotes disillusions and earlier heroes to see through today. Tobias Emmerich’s catchy guitar game fits the ambiguous texts. Finally, a band thinks of people who lock up at home in spring and have not forgotten this diffuse fear from the infinitely long school holidays. These pop songs are clearly great.
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