A feminist manifesto in a punk-pop rhythm.
Is this really an album? Or more of a feminist manifesto? On PERLEN, their second album, Blond decline systematically through how it is to live as a musician and woman in the West German now. It begins with Nina and Lotta Kummer’s memories of the youth without role models (“Durch die Nacht”), and goes from a radical reversal of the old Weather Girls hit “It’s Raining Men” (“Männer”) to an ironically intended strategy recommendation sexual assaults (“Toxic”) to the dumbest role clichés (“I say yes”).
Blond interweave their own experience with the current discourse via rough punk pop, which plays a lot with loud-quiet contrasts and hip-hop beats and is not that far removed from the rap-rock club of the rest of the Kummers. This is quite feuilletonistic, never academic, but humorous and always suspect of a slogan. And now all together: “No more toxic vibes / I say no to toxic guys!”