After their previous album "Jazzfest", which had about as much to do with jazz as the Beatles, the Viennese indie pop band Pauls Jets are back with their fourth studio album. It bears the auspicious title "Morgen sind wir Fantasy" and is a bittersweet pop album on which the people in the songs are always on the verge of or already in the middle of a crisis.
Right at the beginning, with the album opener "Pompeii", it starts with the big end of the world: "Everything is collapsing, everything is collapsing!". Once again! And once again, the apocalypse is sold to us as a romance. …
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After their previous album "Jazzfest", which had about as much to do with jazz as the Beatles, the Viennese indie pop band Pauls Jets are back with their fourth studio album. It bears the auspicious title "Morgen sind wir Fantasy" and is a bittersweet pop album on which the people in the songs are always on the verge of or already in the middle of a crisis.
Right at the beginning, with the album opener "Pompeii", it starts with the big end of the world: "Everything is collapsing, everything is collapsing!". Once again! And once again, the apocalypse is sold to us as a romance. Between fences, heat and snowstorms, a couple travels through the world. Two last people fall in love while everything around them collapses! Kitsch is the cure! The Jets sing: "The story ends, even if the ending is bad."
Musically, the album draws on the entire lived pop fantasy of the last 50 years. As an indie nerd, you can hear a certain affinity to the extra-eclectic 90s indie favorites such as Bran Van 3000, Denim or the Super Furry Animals. But also a lot of millennial pop a la Sleigh Bells or English Teacher. And lots of trap, hip hop and scooter!
On the cover we see a tear emoji made of clay. Keyboarder Kilian Hanappi once brought the 10 kilos of Brandenburger clay with him from Berlin to Vienna. In the end, it took many days to give the sadness the right expression in an analog equivalent to the fast digital characters. And perhaps everyone felt a lot better after the manual work was done. Just as we, in turn, hopefully feel a little better after listening to this fabulous new Jets album. "Sometimes sad music succeeds in making people happy! Especially when it brings melancholy people together! That's our claim! We don't want to bring anyone down!", adds Buschnegg about the healing bittersweetness that is often invoked in British pop music, which also makes up the magic of his band's music.
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