Hamburg indie rock at its finest.
Two EPs in the second half of the nineties, the first from 1996, the second from 1998, “Leight Parts”, “Little Rock”, now on one album – and the realization that something must have gone wrong here. Because while Tocotronic continues to shine and lack any edge so much, Eastern Zone Soup Cube Making Crabs remain the phenomenon with the long name.
“From Home Alone” is Hamburg perfection: indie rock with lyrics about the contradictions of the I, the you, the togetherness – “and I sometimes think that we understand each other so well is also because we each other see in the other”. Then the high-speed monologue at the end: It’s crazy how naturally the band manages to speak German, even though they had previously escaped from it with the instrumental album KEINSEIER (1994), with the first two LPs on which English dominated.
The group’s music had many double bases at the time. LIGHT PARTS, SMALL SKIRT is also complex, but does not require a superstructure. “Scheint gut” seems like rockabilly played by Tortoise, the loud guitar at the end is noise heaven. “Different construction site, similar task” has something of Morricone about it, but what the drummer is playing is something that no one outside the group cosmos understands. These post-rock elements make the music so interesting, there is an adventure waiting around every corner. Will there be more? A new band photo and live dates in the fall speak for this. Get there!