What a likable title this two-man band from Herne, in the heart of the Ruhr area, has given their new album.
Surprisingly, this is already the seventh album of the band. I've never heard anything from these two guys from the Ruhr area. Is that good or bad?
The duo is said to play fun punk and is apparently so good that they were able to enlist Micro Bogumil (former Abstürzende Brieftauben) to appear in the music video for "Your Hit." As one of the lucky people who has seen the pigeons live, and even multiple times, I am pleased with this collaboration, as the Abstürzende Brieftauben have become legendary. They were at the forefront of fun punk and, until the end of the band's history, brought together fun, politics, and provocation in an unparalleled way. But now we are not talking about the pigeons but about SUPERFLUOUS.
The CD has fourteen songs plus two music videos. The recording is clean and well-balanced. Good work has been done.
SUPERFLUOUS plays a very poppy kind of punk rock. Yes, it also leans towards fun punk and is probably that, but I still refuse to use this term in relation to the band. Here are the reasons:
- It has a sound that is mostly too poppy
- The lyrics are solid in terms of poetry, but the statements of the lyrics are often
quite meaningless.
- The songwriting sounds more like party hits than something original, let alone
from subculture (which fun punk was back in the day).
Stylistically, the band somewhat resembles Lustfinger, but even that band is significantly better than the guys from Herne.
SUPERFLUOUS has created nothing with "Door Closed, Here Comes Noise" that deserves attention. It is not a tribute to the old days. It is nothing new. It doesn't hurt.
It is...superfluous.
