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"Die Leute reden schon": Gallmucke Gallmucke's newest album, "Die Leute reden schon" is now out or about to come out and the DML was given the chance to give the album a pre-listen. I'd never actually heard this band before so had nothing to compare it to but the album is not bad! It's fairly poppish, especially where the keyboards are involved, though it definately picks up the pace here and there with some strong guitars and drums. The first song, "und George Clooney spielt an dich" was decent enough, though a tiny bit plodding, maybe, but the next song, "Die Peanuts sind gegessen" makes up for any energy that might have been previously lacking. The keyboards here, and throughout most of the album, have a very Sportfreunde Stiller-ish feel to them, though. "Ein Stück Vergangenheit" has a good chorus and is the beginning of a set of songs that I like very much. "Simonalisa", besides having a seriously cool name, is also one of my definate favorites off this album. It's very memorable vocally as well as musically with strong guitars and a fairly light touch with the keys. "Irgendwie weiß ich genau" is another very catchy song though much heavier with the keyboards and drums - this one particularly reminded me of Sportfreunde Stiller, more so than any others. Next is my absolute favorite song on this album, "Eure Nummer". This song rocks!! A definate highlight about the music industry. "Sommer" is a fun song with some amusing lyrics, referencing David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, but the lyrics to "Es tut noch immer etwas weh" are an absolute riot!! Guy falls down and is worried about this cut getting infected, it's just so weird and maintains a decent energy level. "Hallo Welt" is a decent song but is the beginning of what I consider a bit of a downward slide. The keyboards are a bit heavy handed and almost irritating. I think of "Was wir wollen" as the "Geburtstag song" and I don't particularly care for it. The Geburtstag lyrics annoy me for some reason. "Tag Vorbei" isn't bad, rather slow and made me think of Elton John oddly enough since I don't even listen to Elton John - really, I don't!! This ballad-ish tune is almost exclusively keys and drums and the keys are certainly decent enough, I just normally prefer keyboards moderately, as "flavoring" so to speak. For the last song, "Ich nahm dich", there's only one term I can think of to describe it - lounge music :-/ It fools you at first with a short rocking intro but one isn't fooled for long! The worst part is that this song will still manage to embed itself into your unwilling brain. I then try to summon up memories of "Simonalisa" or "Eure Nummer" but I'm not always successful. That is the last "official" song and then comes a "hidden" track that isn't very stealthy as it begins immediately after "Ich nahm dich" is over and you can even forward to it. That's alright, though, because I don't like waiting for secret tracks. This is just a jumble of all kinds of things. People talking, strange parts of songs - all kinds of stuff and ends with a ballad-type song that was rather nice... Basically this album is very diverse - in the sense that I'm not altogether sure what this band is all about. By the end of the official songs I could barely recall who I was even listening to anymore, we'd moved so far from where we'd started. Mostly I enjoyed the beginning/middle of the CD the most and tend to avoid the last songs completely, though the secret section is pretty cool. I think it's great that Gallmucke likes to experiment with various styles of music and they have some very good stuff on here but the spectrum is so extreme that it makes this album, for me, a bit difficult to fully embrace. Mikki 3/07 This can also be found in German at Oi!Vision Get it from: |
