On their self-titled debut album, the Münster-based trio Order 69 delivers ten songs that are like the warm coat you inherited, in which you feel comfortable and at home, not despite, but precisely because of the itchy texture: With the sounds from the particularly great and experimental era of British rock'n'roll, you are captured by this music and don't want to get out again.
The sometimes demandingly distorted bass and the virtuoso drums pump confidently and powerfully through the songs. Together with guitar riffs, bubbling and rousing like lava, which you simply have to get close to because it's so beautifully hot, they form a fertile foundation for the vocals.
The band's voices convey the clever lyrics with casual anger, sonic megalomania, but also, time and again, a youthful tenderness that transforms personal experiences into profound insights, questions into answers, and perplexity into knowledge. And vice versa. That's what distinguishes real music from calculated twaddle.
The sound and space of the songs fit this: everything recorded on analog tape, authentic sounds instead of digital spoofing, but never outdated. Music for tomorrow. To put it briefly: Even if this music sounds different, Hendrix would certainly have liked it.
01 drive
02 Cryin'
03 Fire and Fuel
04 Without Intermission
05 The Relief
06 Stab Me
07 Lady J
08 day
09 Squirter
10 Filling the Pots
