2023-06-01 09:00:00
Pop history: Radiofabrik uses online voting to find the best album in the country. The SN introduces all nominees. Today: The SeeSaw.
The best pop sound from Salzburg? The best pop album in the country? For its 25th birthday, Radiofabrik is looking for a winner from 25 selected works by means of online voting until September. Until then, the nominated albums will be broadcast every Tuesday and Thursday at 12 noon on the free radio station Radiofabrik. You can vote on the Homepage of the radio factory. And here, too, they will be taken from the archive and you will be able to read how these albums sound.
Number one: “Generation Love” by The SeeSaw
The recording of the new, third album by The SeeSaw paid off in the fact that, unlike in the past, almost all the songs matured on stage. Stootsie, Max and the new drummer Manuel effortlessly took the dynamics of the stage – and with it a surprising portion of heaviness – into the studio. The eleven songs – built of propulsive guitars, rooted in British pop and buoyed by Stootsie’s uncanny sense of melody – all have the courage to be uneven.
The distortion of the voices is exaggerated because of the sheer exuberance of the new power. That should have happened differently or not at all with one or the other song. But even this single “mistake” disappears behind a great achievement, which The SeeSaw impressively document with “Generation Love”: This band has pulled itself together and clearly decided on a path. Rough and lively, this path definitely leads forward. What used to fall victim to Stootsie’s infatuation with sound tinkering breaks through here: The tremendous glory of pop rock songs, whose basic structure was always there in the years of SeeSaw career, but for sheer “want-to-sound-like-the-beach-boys- and-Paul-Weller-and-Oasis” never came to light. Between dripping ballads, catchy rock refrains and magnificently rhythmic pop jewels, it becomes clear why this album is a great work: It can be used in every phase of life and promises salvation from all evil in this world with every bar.
Bernhard Flieger/SN of June 24, 2004
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