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Odeville used to be a post-hardcore band. The trio is increasingly moving away from this past: on their two most recent records, PHOENIX and ROM, they sounded like a German version of Biffy Clyro – with a penchant for hymns, grand gestures and no shying away from being close to so-called pop poets like Revolverheld and Johannes Oerding , zu Selig, Jupiter Jones and Co.. Potentially in the charts, but always under the radar of the national press, festival bookers and fans of the acts mentioned.
On JENSEITS DER STILLE they are now partly finding their way back to their roots. The charismatic singer Hauke Horeis still carries his heart on his hand, paints pictures between light and dark, sings against fascists and for love and chooses with his powerful rhythm section despite “Oh-Oh” and children’s choirs, handclaps, strings, loud-quiet -Dynamics and commonplace lines like “At the end of the day we are all looking for happiness” never take the easy path. Pathos remains a means to an end, passion remains a central element of their work. This is supposed to be the “hardest, dirtiest, most socially critical and most political album of our trilogy”, say Odeville, cover Fury In The Slaughterhouse at the same time and give us another anthem with “Stille” (about death), which unfortunately again does not have any commercial meaning will be. A balancing act that not many bands succeed in doing.
Odeville’s album “BEYOND THE STILLE” in the stream:
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