Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Alternative/Indie | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 164 / 10-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 7/10 | Label: Constrictor | Autor: ML
While the Phillip-Boa-&-The-Voodooclub-albums of the mid-eighties offered a mostly wonderfully ingenious and often refreshingly dilettantish sound between Captain Beefheart and the B-52's, where one was never sure with which idea the Dortmund band would come around the corner in the next song, Ernst Ulrich Figgen (so Boas bourgeois name), who emigrated to Malta in the meantime, has long since arrived in the manageable mainstream. Even if someone like Oli Klemm from Krautrockern Sankt Otten plays the guitar. The sound on "Bleach House" is always balanced and it sounds sometimes like David Bowie ("Are You The One From Heaven"), sometimes snotty-punk ("Snake Plissken"), but more in the dead pants sense and no longer really dangerous or even innovative. Boa's penchant for NDW-suspicious fairground pop is lived out kitschy on "The Fear That Falls". Basically, there are no real runaways anymore, neither upwards nor downwards, except for the powerful opener "Kill The Future" - unfortunately the only real highlight.
Top Track: Kill The Future
