Heimlich

专辑运用了纷繁复杂的乐器编排，手风琴、夏威夷四弦琴、班卓琴、单簧管、小提琴、小号、长号、笛子、Bouzuoki琴等等，歌曲用德语、法语、英语三种语言来演唱，曲风从巴尔乾罗马尼亚的旋转节拍到法国香颂般的抒情歌曲，多变而迷人。延续他们以往专辑的风格，欢悦之处令人起舞，温柔的吟唱又是宁静忧伤的。 Okay, there aren't 17 of them and they may ort may not be hippies. But the German band make an interesting sound — or variety of sounds — on Heimlich. It's as much a case of spot the genre as much as anything. In "Schattenmann" and "Rustemul" you can hear the Balkans calling, at least in part, "The Moving Song" mutates from a vaguely Cajun beginning into something else entirely, the title cut offers the kind of softly psychedelic vocals that wouldn't have sounded out of place in the 1960s, while their version of the twanging guitar instrumental "Apache" features no guitars at all and a time change to make it into something oddly familiar but still quite alien. In other words, it's a glorious, gleeful melange that won't stand still long enough to be pinned down. In many ways that's' a good thing, since it shows a band having fun with its music. But at the same time, the chameleon appearance makes it hard to know exactly what to make of them — as with the semi-orchestral break in the middle of "Madame," for instance. It appears out of nowhere and vanishes again. Pleasant, yes, but it leaves you no closer to understanding 17 Hippies. Maybe that's the secret, though — not to try and understand, but simply accept and enjoy.