If you don’t promise anything, you can’t disappoint anyone. Chuckamuck may have thought of that too. For more than ten years, the three Berliners have been a band like this, a beloved, friendly, unkempt acquaintance that most people have in their circle of friends. This guy you don’t expect in life to bring a salad or wine to the party. You’re more likely to be lucky if he turns up at all before midnight, finds the right address, and doesn’t get the date wrong.
So you’re really happy when Chuckamuck come back just a year after their last album LANGUAGE BARRIER, with the new record BEATLES in the bag, and do what they do best: break hearts, heal hearts, with likeable garage pieces, drinking songs and psychedelic Americana wobbling in the evening sun. With their horns and hand-drummed percussions, they sometimes listen to what Element of Crime might have sounded like if they were actually young and dumb at some point.
In any case, Chuckamuck also manage Regener’s cheerful frustration very well: Even if a song begins with the Russian ballet, it somehow ends with melancholy about the ballerina. But with a melancholy that won’t break you any more than all losses, only makes you crooked until you look like Chuckamuck sound – always a bit out of place. But still: very wonderful. No, Chuckamuck never made a big, shiny promise. But if you don’t promise anything, you’ll be surprised the most.
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