DRITTE WAHL - "10" (2017)

DRITTE WAHL - "10"
(Running time: 47:52 minutes; 12 songs)
("Dritte Wahl Records"; 2017; CD):

Hey guys, good evening or good morning, how you prefer it and from where you are and where you are reading this. Anyhow, anyway… Time for another new post, at least that's how I decided it, so to say, and here and now this ,means it's time for another and a new record-review. Here and now you get my record-review on the still current full-length-album of/by the German Punk legends DRITTE WAHL (en)titled simply "10" and released via the band's very own label "DRITTE WAHL RECORDS" and this already last year in 2017 but I just got my hands on it this very year and so you still get my record-review on it also already still right now and right here in 2018, yes, and so now let's go: Thinking about it I can't really tell what was the last album of DRITTE WAHL I got and when was the last time I really listened to them, hm, a lot of water went down the river(s), so to say, and then "10" hit me pretty much from out of nowhere and really conquered me. I would never have thought that in 2018 finally again a German Punk band and album would make me cheer that enthusiastical and euphoric up to it'n'them but after this turned out to be exactly that way then it's maybe not that much of a surprise that DRITTE WAHL would/are that band to do  exactly that. This is a really and truly damn fucking strong album that really is packed up full with energy and dynamics that tear down every wall(s) and go straight over the top through the roof(s) and that's also filled with great surprises, fresh ideas, and an really incredible high level of 'thoughtfulness' and 'soulfulness' (musicwise and lyricwise) and all to the absolute maximum and all well-grown-up in a through-and-through authentic and honest and still highly energetic and just still hungry way, hell yeahr, and with a damn lot of the songs on/of "10" DRITTE WAHL really seem to speak right and direct and straight out of my heart and soul. This is right from the get-go a total and massive (German) Punk assault of the highest quality grade with strong (Hard) Rock and Metal reminiscences in it and this time heavily enriched with clear Old School Rock & Roll arrangements, rhythmes and grooves but all done very highly energetic and delivered so damn very fresh and in a pure organic way that it's just conquering again and again without taking any prisoners. Also fantastic worked out Chanty Rock rhythmes and grooves and influences are to be noticed and also some few to huge Country & Western marks in the arrangements and the compositorial work in general and also especially in the guitar work are (at least from my point of view) clearly there and this through-and-through only for the damn right reasons. And this all is melted perfectly in the still so incredible highly energetic and dynamic and totally fresh and still absolutely stand-alone done'n'delivered (German) Punk(rock) that it's nothing else and especially nothing less than mindblowing and you would expect anything but not that these fine gentlemen are now around for already 30/31 years and that this very one here was already their, yes, damn tenth full-length-album, because this is as fresh, as strong, and even greater than for example their legendary and in my personal case truly lifechanging and groundbreaking milestone "NIMM DREI" from back then in 1996. Highly diverse guitar work, multi-facetted rhythm arrangements and work, and charismatic vocals and all melted together by breathtaking melody lines, yes, this are the ingredients that turn DRITTE WAHL's "10" into a total masterpiece. All is wrapped up in brilliant, highly diverse and multi-layered as well as multi-facetted, incredible exciting and so damn grapping songwriting, and all highly emotional and intense, honest and heartfelt, and without any ridiculous clichées or pathos, it's really so damn close to perfect and it conquers and overwhelms me again and again. And this all is also to say exactly in that same way to/about the absolutely amazing and just totally fantastic lyrics. A beautiful artwork and a warm and organic and yet still clear and heavy production-sound finally round it all up. If you are into Punkrock and really should not have or even know DRITTE WAHL's "10" you really should desperately change this finally. My last words: A damn pretty much perfcet album, get it!!!

(10 of 10 points)

http://www.dritte-wahl.de/ (-the link to the homepage of the band)

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