“Attention! Hello! Attention! Let’s introduce ourselves first: Andy. Ronny. Choir and Jens, the new one, his name is Flo”
With “You pay I fuck”, Kommando delivers its already sixth album. No Rachut band has had such a prolific output before. And I’ll stick my neck out and claim that without Jens Rachut (Dackelblut, Oma Hans, Angeschissen, Blumen im Arsch der Höhle, among others), there wouldn’t be bands like everybody's darling TURBOSTAAT.
“The gothfather of Nordküsten-Punkrock” strikes back!
After the somewhat experimental predecessors, a pure punk album is presented here again, with everything one expects from Rachut: Confused thoughts, angular lyrics, and quirky vocal lines, along with occasional female choirs.
Musically closer to Oma Hans again, which is certainly also due to long-time companion Andreas Ness on guitar. Here, it almost seamlessly connects to the old Oma times; whether this happened before, I cannot say, as the last two releases “Pfingsten” (2011) and “Scheiße nicht schon wieder Bernstein” (2008) somehow slipped by me unnoticed (dear MAJOR LABEL, you have my address, I’ll take the vinyl version ;-) )
It crashes and bangs again, skillfully hitting you in the ears, and as fittingly stated in the opener “Wohnrakete”: We have no time for picnics, those who take a break will get stiff.
If I were to give the recently released Turbostaat der Angst 8 points, and the Love Academy 9 points for “Irgendwie” in comparison, Kommando would still get 7 points. The edges make it ultimately a typical but also typically difficult Rachut album. I miss one or two earworms, something that sticks. But that’s never been the aim of the gentleman (especially not with Kommando Sonne Nmilch), and that’s a good thing. A hit like “Tse Tse-Fliege” back then should still be possible, especially since the album, unlike the previous works of the Kommando, seems a bit catchier.
What you get here is punk rock for adults who don’t want to deny their inner child but feel apart from the current student punk-something-with-media nonsense.
“One demands happy endings, we pay for happy endings”
You pay I fuck is released as LP+MP3 and CD in a stylish digipack. A limited colored edition of the vinyl will be available at MAJOR LABEL, at concerts, or at Flight13.
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