These boys are Tocotronic. Their meanwhile 8th album 'Kapitulation', released on Friday last week, is so far the best record i've heard in the year 2007. The album-title should be self-explaining, even to non-german speakers. 'Kapitulation' is, to speak with a host of austrian radio FM4, a 'gigantic monolith, brutal and radical'. Nothing to add. 12 songs of total abandonment - abandonment of dedication, of love, of resistance - constitute a manifest of imperfection: A manifest that becomes intenser with every song, finally culminating in the cathartic 'Explosion'.
Tocotronic have delivered their masterpiece: A record, which is, especially in Germany, totally against the so called 'zeitgeist' (remember the '06 football party?), an anti-thesis to both, the neoliberal everything-goes-attitude and the fierce Anti-G-8-platitude. A courageous endeavour. A great record. Not because it is in german, but although it is in german.
Tocotronic - Explosion
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