If there’s one album that surprised me this year, it’s the debut album of the Kiel trio NO TEETH IN THE MOUTH BUT LA PALOMA WHISTLING!
With a band name like this (I’ll take the liberty of shortening this somewhat oversized band name to KZIMALPP), I was more than convinced I was dealing with a new comedy-cabaret-fun punk band in the vein of HEITER BIS WOLKIG or ANGEFAHRENE SCHULKINDER, but I was completely mistaken.
What the Leipzig Allerlei is for the palate, the Kiel Allerlei is for the music consumer. Consequently, the vegetable fetishist takes the dish from Leipzig, and the individual music lover takes KZIMALPP. The variety of styles I hear from the 10 (+ 1 hidden) songs of KZIMALPP is rarely presented to me. One thing stood out above all: the driving bass lines from Lars Stuhlmacher, which inevitably remind me of the living hardcore legend NO MEANS NO. The three Northerners also draw on other music classics, whose melodies can be heard slightly altered in their songs. Thus, "Mother" by DANZIG meets "A Forest" by THE CURE, and the FLIEHENDE STÜRME feeling merges with old DEPECHE MODE sounds. Many songs are supported by minimal synthesizer sounds, and I also hear New Wave and NDW anthems from VISAGE and UKW. With a bit of imagination, I even hear SPORTFREUNDE STILLER!
But not only the melodies remind me of some songs; some lyrics or even both, for example TON STEINE SCHERBEN with "I don’t want to become what my age is" and "Etiquette kills" by SLIME. Which KZIMALPP songs these two apply to, you’ll have to find out for yourselves ;-)
Lyrically, the 11 German-language songs are also not without merit and remind me of TURBOSTAAT as well as OMA HANS. Unfortunately, I don’t have a booklet, and the cover is also not appealing, so I can’t award the highest score this time, which "Postsexual" otherwise would have deserved!
