Here it is: After I had the opportunity to review the EP of the Berlin band weeks ago, the complete work is now in front of me.
Like the EP “Scheiße bleib Scheiße”, “Punk Remains Punk” sounds serious in parts, although, don't worry, the baser instincts are addressed in many of the songs. This is by no means meant negatively, but is something I also expect from the band.
They often string together clichés (“The smarter one drinks up”), but KOTZREIZ does this with their well-known charm and can get away with it.
They seem to have matured without completely leaving behind their childish phase. This feat is achieved by very few.
Whether they see any money for their promotional song for the pepper liqueur “Pfeffi Graf” remains a question that needs to be clarified.
In “Tränen,” they hit exactly the mark of those gray-area trash bands that would love to slip into the money machinery of Frei.Wild and Onkelz. The Pied Piper bands that like to lure poor souls with their campfire romance, only to hammer their ideologies into them - “Faith, pride, hope, we don’t sing about that” is the Berlin response to that.
The icing on the cake of the album is certainly the guest contributions from some friendly bands. KOTZREIZ shares a few of their songs with musicians from NONSTOP STEREO, FEINE SAHNE FISCHFILET, AUF BEWÄHRUNG, and DIVAKOLLEKTIV (ex-THE STATTMATRATZEN), which adds a lot of variety.
The right music to sing along loudly in the car and to spray beer at concerts. Anyone who fell in love with the work of HUMAN PUNX (“Nietzsches Schreibmaschine”) back then won't go wrong with KOTZREIZ.
The album will be released on September 14 on Aggressive Punk Produktionen / Edel as a CD with a limited poster booklet and sticker, a limited colored 12” LP with a DIN A2 poster booklet including an MP3 download card, a limited MC, and of course also as a digital download. 12 songs. LP limited to 700 copies. Colored vinyl. - I’ll take the latter ;)
