RAZZIA

Spuren

Digi CD



At last. "Spuren", the fourth RAZZIA album from 1991, the last with Rajas Thiele as singer, was still missing as a new edition. After "Tag ohne Schatten" (1983), "Outing with Franziska" (1986) and "Menschen zu Wasser" (1989), it has now been re-released both as LP and CD. Visually, the cover is close to the original, the layout was still redone - with the result at that time, the band was no longer happy in retrospect. If Bernhard's keyboard had been a defining element of the RAZZIA sound on its predecessor, the Hamburg band had said goodbye to the machine two years later and recorded their last "classic" album in an enormously powerful production (remastered by Bernhard Waack for this reissue). The lyrics wrote on "tracks" mostly bassist Sören Callsen, some again Andreas Siegler, and the A-side is equally strongly initiated by "An der Grenze", before in third place the striking "Fahnensog" is called. The content of dealing with dealing with old Nazi criminals song (then there was still a chance to punish them, today are almost all dead) is an absolute highlight of German punk history, poignant, intense and catchy at the same time, and repeatedly caught I comment on the heretical thought, where there are actually bands today, who, like RAZZIA or UPRIGHT CITIZENS (or SLIME), comment and analyze the politics and social developments with razor sharpness as they once did. Bad, but I do not see and hear any who can follow in their footsteps with a similarly unerring, eloquent and musically well-versed attitude. Just take "Welcome" - a text that gets under your skin. The new edition comes both as LP (with text sheet, but without liner notes) and as a CD, which still has two bonus songs: "slave people" and "Bright as the morning sun", both unpublished, with Rajas as a singer - perfidiously, one does not really come on the purchase of both formats over ...