I’m still not really down with Hamburg + Perhaps because the city took two of my best friends; at least out of everyday life + Maybe it’s jealousy + And now, the old fish-head also has this unbelievably talented quartet + Fotos + Formerly of Hamburg, Augsburg, Cologne, and Wuppertal, now only Hamburg + It couldn’t have gone on like this forever + Releasing one of the best German debut albums of all time, playing more than a hundred shows along the way, and, as a part-time project, demonstrating to people on the other side of the world that music from Germany can be more than Rammstein or The Scorpions + That takes a lot of energy + You need a safe harbor + A robber’s den + For Fotos that’s Hamburg + And you need such a backdrop if you are waiting with a new album, which sounds completely different from your debut, and if you enter into the rough waters of what has become the German music market + This minefield, in which people do not hesitate to sell their own children + Not the cool kids from the hood + Not The Strokes, who released one and the same album three times + Not The Killers, whose second record, frankly, is garbage, but nevertheless sold thousands of copies + Also not this Beatles-Stones-Oasis-Parody from Sweden, who, unfortunately, nobody ever told that party is over + No + And The Editors do not sound like Interpol + Or Duffy like Miss Winehouse + Nope, if a band arrantly copies whatever they can find, then it’s these young guns, called Fotos + First they imitate Franz Ferdinand, now Phoenix + Period + Or just Folk + That’s what I’m talking about + My name is MC Rezi and I write for Spex magazine + Why should I care? + This band is not even from England + Had they been from Britain, their debut would have already been a classic + Their new album, “Nach dem Goldrausch,” a brave step, shows how much musicians can free themselves, if they only want to, even if the pressure is unimaginable, because they know that the bar lies higher than the world record + Courage and creativity + Guys, what more do you want? + With that, you’re even ahead of the widely admired Strokes

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