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Typ1 - Ich ist ein Anderer |
A very personal release that recently catched my attention is Typ1's "Ich ist ein Anderer". The band is sharing their life experiences and has translated them into powerful songs. The songs talk about the realities of being a teenager (or young adult) in todays mo dern, fast-living world, with all the social coldness and loneliness many of us have or had to face as daily routine. This is the band's second release, and there are some improvements noticeable, however the debut sounded not bad either. Whilst the lyrics and the arrangements improved, the sound lost some of it's originality. In fact, I'm not sure wich one is better. If you see a release of Typ1, you should grab it no matter what it is.
I suppose many songs on that record are special to the front man of the band, Micha, because he put a lot of effort into his singing performance that i want to point out as clearly excellent. The female vocals are unfortunately way less impressive and cannot always keep up with the overall atmosphere. In fact a clearly markable weak point of the album. A counter part like "Sandra Nasic" or "Vas Kallas" from HuG could have absolutely blown this record!!! Never mind, dreaming is allowed, isn't it?
All songs come in a very traditional rock band set up, with only e-guitars, drums and vocals. This is not a bad thing of course, but there could be a little more diversity to make the songs more interesting. The whole music lives a lot from Micha's singing performance, maybe it's the crucial element. The guitar work is not bad, nor the production, the drummer does a good job, too. What i miss is either more guitar presence at all in the songs (maybe another guitarist), or more guitar work, more riffing, more melodies, more creativity. Ofcourse thats what we always want: More of everything, isn't it. Nevertheless, the guitarist managed to do a few catchy motives, like in "Gefühle innerster Leere" or "Phobie" that come both with a heavy intro, that makes the metal fan's heart jump in the air. By the way, that seems to be a common structure of Typ1 songs, the guitar starts the songs with a solid performance, and then it's Micha who takes over the leading part. Get's a bit boring, maybe there should be more flexibility.
In summary, Typ1 has done a decent record that unfortunately just doesn't have anything unique anywhere. Especially a recommendation for NuMetal haters and, oh well, Fans of die Schweisser should also like it, although there's no Sax' this time. It makes me think of Eisenkopf, even if it's not as hard, but there's maybe a pinch of "Scheisskind" in the songs, regarding to the sound and to the general ingrediences.
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Reviewer: Tobias Weigl
Hompage: www.typ1-rockt.de
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