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The album title “Hooligans of Love“ clearly refers to this. It immediately reminds me of “Terrorist der Liebe“ by Hubert Kah & Joachim Witt. A gruesome piece of music featuring a completely spaced-out and otherworldly Hubert Kah (for those who want to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJPL0mePeOM, but don’t say I didn’t warn you).
YELLOW UMBRELLA are neither spaced-out nor otherworldly. Rather, they have incorporated a variety of influences in this album, ranging from Ska, Pop, Klezmer, Jazz, Balkan, Punk to Rocksteady.
The album has very good sound quality, is harmonious, and is catchy. Perhaps even too catchy. It suits quiet moments, relaxed dancing, but of course also dreaming. This makes the album versatile but on the other hand also quite shallow. It lacks edges and corners. Edges and corners that can certainly be heard in the lyrics, but get a bit lost in the relaxed sound. All the songs are radio-friendly. They have left the cramped cosmos of scene Ska / scene Rocksteady and, like the sirens in Greek mythology, lure even non-scene people onto the dance floor with their sound.
The band deserves to be heard and not dismissed with this sound. Since the band's tour recently ended, the seven from Saxony cannot be heard live for the time being. However, the album is definitely recommended. It is not for scene police, but for open-minded people of all kinds.
