The band Jupiter Jones has been around for 20 years now. Well, there was a break between 2018 and 2021 after singer Nicholas Müller left the group in 2014 for health reasons, the other members recorded another album with new singer Sven Lauer and then they broke up. Then last year there was a small reunion, consisting of the old singer and another original member, guitarist Sascha Eigner, so that we now have a new record, groan.
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THE SONNE IS EIN ZWERGSTERN is their title – and indeed, the dwarf seems to be the program on this album. We are dealing with music here that was written by and for the German middle class and university students. Hymnically prepared generalities run through the album musically and lyrically and scream, sometimes rocking, sometimes electro-pop, incessantly into Ikea facilities: Suitable for radio! Emotionally! pedestrian zone!
Suitable for radio! Emotionally! pedestrian zone!
Vocally, the singer, admittedly virtuosic, orientates himself towards a mixture of Casper, Johannes Oerding and Klaus Lage, while the arrangements absolutely want to do everything right, at least the verse is withdrawn in the pattern/big discharge in the chorus. Not the smallest mistake, not an irritation remains in this well-kept gravel garden, in which the buckets are set up, into which everyone can fill what he likes: “I think we need hearts made of asbestos, quiet and durable and fireproof” (” My much and your maybe”).
In “Maybe” it says: “Times are changing, I don’t know the direction.” And this is where the problem of this album shows: It’s the big “Maybe” in the first world, the eternal small-small, the positionless behind pseudo themes like “We” and “Together” and “Nevertheless”. And the fact that the music bothers so little is almost the most annoying.
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