Come on, there is still Granada

Gladly you would still be seventeen, if you listen to the new album of the Styrian band Granada. On "Ge Bitte" tell songs of cities, women, gin and rain. The group's second longplayer is coming out just in time for the summer season. And at the same time everything looks the same: the good mood Austropop meets Balkan rhythms and folk blues. They want to feel free, desperate, or blunt choruses.

At the latest since their success at the box office "Ottakring", the five boys from Granada have arrived in the top league of the Austrian pop scene. Guitarist Lukacz Custos, drummer Roland Hanslmeier, bbadist Jürgen Schmidt and accordionist Alexander Christof, as well as the band Granada, have already played singer Thomas Petritsch. 19659004] And when Granada releases indie guitars with his new work and mixes them with catchy drums and accordion sounds plunged into the Balkans, catchy melodies with a pleasing folk note come out. By listening more closely, more melancholy shades appear. In Schunkler "Verwoitn" he says: "If you man, you know us verbwoitn / Jo, then do not forget, that there Grenzsta jo scho." A bit of steam, a socially critical setback. Just to be subversive, it does not become unpleasant.

Without platitudes, the five boys around Granada do not hear: In the song "Berlin" the band scolds the German city – that's what singer Petritsch wants his ex-girlfriend with his new friend a thousand children in Berlin. A number that seems lyrical lyrical, but rhythmically energetic.

Songs like "Mallorca in the rain" or "Sauna" in which Granada glorifies human achievements as the "Schwitzkammer" are a little more cynical: "Huach ma zua The culture of the body" is the epic poem in "Sauna ". And the men around Petritsch are still relaxed. Grenada is doing without loud cries of rut or a playful attitude. Petrich does not need to invent the alter ego of a confused genius or an impromptu philosopher to survive. A bit of Haudrauf-Rock that he mixes casually with sympathetic authenticity. The gentlemen of Graz play at the international level. And the audience of Donauinselfest, a few days ago, has spun in the presentation of the album, while Alexander Christof's accordion is open to peak performance. The Grazer combo found its place on the new record as a member of the Austropop band and also consolidated their role in this band: as a group with a lot of penchant for life and an attitude rooted in the rock star [19659006] "(Karmarama / Sony)