The indie rock institution opposes strangely stiff humor and combative despite the impending darkness.
In 1975 David Bowie promised his lover that the “Golden Years” would still wait for both of them. Exactly half a century later, Dirk von Lotzow drives to Recklinghausen in the title song from Golden Years, takes sleeping pills in the motel and tells us that you can be grateful, “if you still meet people, not just as a click on Spotify”.
It is strange that the apparently optimistic Bowie song grimly groovt, while Tocotronic put an almost happy patina on “Golden Years”, despite the pessimistic point of view. This discrepancy runs through the whole album that is her 14th. Almost euphorically, they demand “stay on life”, the guitars freed and the chorus invites you to blown away, but the only good reason to live: “There is still something to do.” Euphorically gymnastics broken windows through “Forget the darkness “, Just so that the darkness will ultimately win:” But you will move in vain / from it. “
So the hope that Golden Years may still be imminent, so last dies
In addition, Lowtzow meets his younger self, to whom the Hamburg hair still hangs into the student face (“How I escaped myself” could have been another chapter of infinity). But not only the past is not as glorious as it seemed, especially the present does not look good: Berlin is no longer what it was (“bye bye Berlin”), depression diates (“low” ), and in the future only death and even the latest day, which is “just a blink of an eye” (“A rock star dies for the second time”). But: We are not in the suicide command, Dirk!
There are also strange stiff humor and shaking rhymes (“dance” on “romance e” on “outpatient clinic”), which provide a little relief. And there is the song that does not hang the head musically and in terms of content. “Because they know what they are doing” is loud and combative and has such a convincing tone stone-fringe vibe that you actually want to believe three minutes and 19 seconds that kisses help against those who “completely grossly Identity “Life and” more and more “. So the hope that Golden Years might still be imminent, so last.
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