The Hosen reched their creative peak on this 1996 masterpiece, which combines the best of the bands many faces, without becoming incoherent: It has power and even crosses over into noisy territory sometimes, yet it is accessible as you would expect, and also more experimental. More than ever, you get the feeling, the bandmembers just do what they want and not what their audience wants, there are remarkably less blatant attempts at singalong melodies, but the biting songwriting makes more than up for it. This time, the lyrical focus lies on religion, but besides that, the variety of topics (child abuse, psychosis, ecstasy, loss of love , hippie-mocking and so on) and the way they are treated is just astonishing. Campino has never written more intelligent, sensible and thoughtfull lyrics than here. Although the Album contains 18 tracks, there are almost no fillers. This is the sound of a band that could do no wrong at this time.
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