The original idea of eight buckets of chicken hearts, i.e. acoustically played punk rock with absurdly comic texts, is now seven years old. Since the 2018 debut album, the concept of the Berlin trio has long been implemented on the one hand, on the one hand, electric guitars are repeatedly implemented and less dadistically implemented.
On the other hand, hardly any band is conceptually so striking and so clearly recognizable. Also on songs are anger and shame somehow the same feeling, the rhythm comes out like clapping, and ridicule and pathos are just two strings of a guitar that no longer knows that she had six. Of course we are still in punk, in classic even when Apocalypse sings Vega: “I was in a bad mood yesterday, I’m in a bad mood today, I’ll be in a bad mood tomorrow.” But she also asks the heart: “Could it be that I am wrong?” – and then formulates all the questions that a person has to face with a reasonably functioning heart these days.
The fact that the music sounds as simple as heart, as if you could do it yourself if necessary, thrown it out by the way, which is of course really difficult, that creates space for the texts and celebrates the art of reduction. Of course, eight buckets of chicken hearts also have a nice sentence for this love for the sparse: “There is nothing good, unless you leave it.”
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