Rick McPhail was once an employee of Cologne’s Popkomm and has been honing Tocotronic’s guitar sound for many years. For some time now he has been running another band project, which was once classified under “Heavy Music for Nerdy People”.
Task mastered confidently
The Hanseatic American with the distinctive advertising glasses combines European and overseas roots with a light hand. Beepy synthesizers are allowed, as are clanging guitars in grunge mode. In the accomplished rock’n’roll tradition, the subjects are worked against the grain. “Gold Card Member” cracks with a lot of reverb, “Youth And I” is dedicated between Hawkwind and punk rock to the eternal question of getting older in showbiz. Task mastered confidently.
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