Orkus
(September 1998, chapter "Plattentips")
(English translation by Guderia, 12. Oct. 1998.)
Die with Dignity "Kraut?"
CD (Captain Trip Rec./ Japan Import)
Oh, well! Bochum is rockin' psychedelic, it swings, it screams,
it moans... Is this Helge Schneider? No, these are some students,
who don't have so much to do, so that they developed their sick "Kraut?".
Since they are fighting for the leathery swimming suit and they
would have liked to be called Project Pigfork, there is an
amazing richness of creativity to put a "Phone Call from Brasil
on a CD, with this track being followed by an excuse of being
normal in a song, which combines cruelly rattling Rock'n'Roll
with awfully distorted vocals. Furthermore, very strange noises
follow, songs with lyrics at the edge of madness, but with very
demanding messages. "Magical Dream" is
ingenious. Cooking Recipe could have been recorded by the
Einstürzende Neubauten at the time of "Affenroulette".
Die with Dignity play with everything that falls into their
hands, and they created a very experimental and weird album,
which is not easy to handle with. Practically, all lyrics are
reprinted both in German and English, which gives rise to some
multi-national feeling. Very recommendable for
freaks of the insane!
Thomas Sonder