“Here Today Gone Tomorrow” is a wonderfully silky, sophisticated techno album that need not pick between heads or tails. Like any good pioneer, Fritz Kalkbrenner knows how to mediate between the various musical poles that are in constant need of reconciliation. The instrumental pieces, like the vocal numbers, come across as well-structured little stories, while the vocal tracks adeptly avoid drowning the dancefloor in a flood of self-pitying, melancholy tears. With the two spectacular hits “Facing The Sun” and »Sideways & Avenues«, the dark “Was Right Been Wrong” and the countryesque “Right In The Dark”, Fritz effortlessly pulls enough pop music aces out of his sleeve for the rest to feel right at home in the club world, always finely balanced between techno that equally rocks but also swings; sounds that are unmistakably in the family and that are mildly reminiscent of the opulent, enchanted moments we know from Sascha Funke or Superpitcher.
(Tobias Thomas, Cologne, Germany, July 2010)
Fritz Kalkbrenner - Sideways & Avenues (Snippet) by suol
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