The fourth Kraftklub album and the first after a five-year break proves that hardly any other band knows how to stage punk esprit with international indie rock riffs and German rap in such a way that all of this also culminates in an incendiary chorus.
In terms of content, the game of deception between pumping Farin-holiday-meets-Franz-Ferdinand at a festival hopping party and socio-political criticism remains exciting. Especially since the big power club topics have lost nothing of their contemporary explosiveness. Titles such as the tongue-in-cheek, self-reflective “Part of this band” or Mike Skinner’s indie disco references to “One song is enough”, which calls the killers by name (and in doing so works through a trauma from the past), may also seem more personal, but the true lyrical strengths lie somewhere else.
For example, when you look at East-West discrepancies and big-city neighborhood liberalism, as in “Wittenberg is not Paris”. Or you, together with Tokio Hotel (other album guests are Mia Morgan and Blond) in the provincial road movie “Fahr mit mir (4×4)”, deserved tips against philistinism and the arch-controversial “Bild” columnist Franz Josef Wagner. “September Fourth” is dedicated to summing up, but not resignedly, the day after the Chemnitz anti-right-wing concert initiated by Kraftklub in 2018 under the banner “We are more” – and what ultimately remained of it.
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