Soifass "1999" LP (black)

Soifass are releasing their new album for their 25th anniversary and the Berlin band have never sounded better, combining well-balanced hardness and catchy choruses. Absolutely brilliant!!!

Founded in 1999 in East Berlin as an Oi-Punk band, they quickly found their own unmistakable style somewhere between Punk, HC, Oi! and now and then even with Ska influences (on speed).

Fast and driving beats meet pounding guitars, lively melodies and street dog vocals without resorting to the clichés typical of the genre in terms of lyrics. They dish it out, they take it, they refrain from pointing the finger and from commercial ambitions. While many bands have adapted their sound to the "German rock" trend of recent years, the band around shouter Viktor has stayed in their own territory.

And there is a lot to tell in the 12 new songs and to call things by their name in typical Soifass style: "Hipster-Stomp" is the quasi sequel to their anti-gentification hit "Großstatdtwahnsinn", which infiltrates Berlin and other big cities for their new playground. In "Berliner Walzer" there is a merciless dance about the ever-growing gap in the elbow society.

Soifass has always tackled the burning issues in a different and more subtle way. Instead of slogans and blatant slogans, songs like "Verschwörer" have a completely different effect when your partner believes all the bullshit in your most intimate circle, or in "Exzessiv" with biting cynicism holds up a mirror of the supposedly perfect world to you.

And when you've made this Berlin flagship into one of the best German-speaking street punk bands for 25 years, you can look back with "anglicisms". Soifass do this without the usual self-congratulation. This band is in a class of its own...Authentic, dirty Soifass!

Tracklist:

1. Anglicists, 2. Enemy, 3. Flying on rockets, 4. Together through the night, 5. From shit to gold, 6. Have a nice trip, 7. Hipster Stomp,

8. Berlin Waltz, 9. Excessive, 10. Conspirator, 11. Alone on the Throne, 12. Time Stands Still

(Sunny Bastards / 2024)