Lenny Kravitz‘Dog is dead. That is tragic, especially for the dog, of course, but Leroy Brown (2009-2021) seems to have been more than just the average loyal companion. In any case, Kravitz posted this farewell greeting, in addition to photos on which animals and masters with sunglasses and chains (both!) Look really good as hell: “(…) Thank you for sharing your life with me. (…) We went around the world together over and over again and taught each other what we could do. You were the best. ” And you have to say, measured against such posts, “Raise Vibration”, the new song that he, Kravitz, has just released, has an astonishingly large abdomen. Mainly a blues-rock guitar riff, over which the voice chants in unison, please bury your ego and instead spread a fine mood. Kravitz is standing in a leopard cloak on jagged cliffs in front of the roaring surf and then there is an astonishingly long instrumental part, in which you don’t know exactly whether it should lead somewhere. Which is awesome. After all, Kravitz was always best (and yes, the thesis here is that he was once really extremely good) when he allowed a little primal instinct in the instrumentation. So there may be hope again. For Kravitz. It looks bad for the dog.
The best album title, we will decide on Wednesday, comes from this week Swiss & The Others. It’s called “Left Radical Schlager” (Columbia / Missglückte Welt / Sony Music) and contains, well, exactly what the title promises. So you hear hyper-dull stomping beats and synth sounds, for which even the cheapest Casio keyboard would immediately plunge itself into suicide with Kravitz’s dog out of shame. And in addition, however, such texts, presented with an attitude, as if they had Amigos and Andrea Berg picked up a stinging mohawk baby at Alexanderplatz years ago and brought it through puberty: “Hetero is not a duty / but homophobic is disgusting / because we are all stars, all the same and you have to pogen Nazis / from the streets / German Blood on German soil / if the hit is too hard for you, are you too soft – ey, ey, ey! ” As a concept, that’s only really handy for three to four songs, and of course it’s good that the EP only consists of five songs.
The most sensible line of song, probably for the whole month, comes from for it Modest Mouse. It appears in the song “Fuck Your Acid Trip” and reads: “Fuck your acid trip, I need to get home.” Basically: the drugs are thrown enough, I like home now. Of course, that brings with it a horrible suspicion: Are Modest Mouse, the indie songwriters with their spirited twisted brains, have now arrived at dad rock? In the case of youngsters who are spoiled and set to music? Well: somehow yes. “The Golden Casket” (Epic International / Sony Music) is actually somewhat deeply relaxed indie rock with a little fat ring around the stomach area. And whoever thinks that is bad (but there is really no real reason for it) can probably blame producer Dave Sardy. Dave has a great flair for pop, said band mastermind Isaac Brock in a recent interview. Whenever he, Brock, came up with something particularly weird, Sardy gave him things like, for example, one Beatles-Document played – and thus gently brought him back to pop. To loveliness. To make it easy. On the one hand. On the other hand, there are of course songs like “Never Fuck a Spider On The Fly”. They also contain advice poetry, but of this nature: “Well if you fuck a spider on the fly / You’re gonna, gonna, gonna get the news / Yeah there’s a lot of web / sure there’s enough for you.” What is that supposed to mean? Well, either: if you mess with spiders, you get caught in their web. Or: the internet is bad. Sure, anyway.
And with that quickly The Go! team (Please not to be confused with the 80s indie band The Go Team). The British around front woman Nkechi Ka Egenamba, best known as Ninja, release an album on Friday that – ha, you almost started here to list the styles that they curate into a largely inexplicably good mix. But it’s easier to say what doesn’t happen: Swedish-Pagan-Nu-Grind-Core-Death-Metal. And Goa. Whereby you can’t be absolutely sure about Goa. Otherwise “Get Up Sequence Part One” (Memphis Industries / Indigo) is a famously over-ambitious work. A partly played live, partly tastefully sampled pop eclecticism. Very soulful. Very colorful. Really great.