HYSTERESE • III • LP

This Charming Man Records

I was surprised when I received the email from Haug - after HYSTERESE releases by the DIY kings of German punk (with albums on Search For Fame, Kidnap, Sabotage and Taken By Surprise, among others), the new album was a little more poppy “ unusual… So so – a little more poppy then. Ready for mainstream too, hahaha. Well, I can reassure you - what Haug, Hysterese's bassist, says is pop, should still undoubtedly be 100% Hysterese for fans of the band. As on the first and second albums, there are anthemic punk songs that here and there are reminiscent of the heroes of the Portland scene. There is also still the typical Hysterese alternating vocals, the mutual cheering, which, in addition to the driving guitars and the sewing machine drums, is another, if not THE, fuel of the Hysterese songs. So what's trendy here? The two songs that are reminiscent of mid-90s US indie? The song that could have been on an early Wax Idols album? Definitely not the last two songs on the album, which are so vocally barking that every OI band would ask for the singer's name... So the bottom line is: a slightly better production doesn't make the PopPunk summer inevitable, but it certainly does a lot Fun to listen to and perhaps the most varied Hysterese record.