CREKKO - review added 3rd December 2009
Album Review: Paint The Town Red (2009)
For fans of: Modern Rock... and bands that rhyme with climbing lizards
The unusually named Crekko - featuring Marco, Basch and Phipse - hail from Germany. They play a music quite unlike your typical Teutonic rock. If you didn't know better you'd assume, like me, that they came from North America. Their sound is ultra modern and hard edged, and hints far more at Nickelback, Foo Fighters and Shinedown than the expected dungeons and dragons-esque metal.
There seems to be very little information about the band online, apart from a few snippets on their MySpace page - and what exists only seems to come in German.
The tracks on Paint The Town Red are generally of a very high standard. This is a good, sturdy, consistent album that has little in the way of peaks and troughs. One exception is the superb 'Gasoline'. It's a simple song but so damned catchy it deserves every bit of success in the charts and beyond. Special mention should also go to 'Loco' which seems to have borrowed the sound from Metallica's 'St. Anger'...and done the riff a lot more justice than James and co. ever did.
The remainder is samey, but it's a good sound so don't take that as a complaint. I like this album. I don't love it, although If it had all been as good as 'Gasoline' then, yes, it could well have been a favourite. If this is your genre however - if you love that hard chart-bothering rock sound - I recommend you check Crekko out. You won't be disappointed.
Check out... 'Gasoline', of course.
Track List:
01. More & More
02. Control
03. Why
04. Mooning
05. Insanity
06. Never Again
07. Anger
08. Goodbye
09. Gasoline
10. Loco
11. Summer Sending Sun
12. On My Own
Label: 7Hard
Artist's website(s): Crekko , MySpace
