The video for the title track of the new album "Hinterhof Poesie“ is now online.
The link is as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4NNbG6Pp0
CASINO BLACKOUT released a video for the title track one week after the release of their new studio album "Hinterhof Poesie“ (Hinterhof Produktionen | Rough Trade), produced by Michael Czernicki (Antilopen Gang, Rogers, etc.), showcasing the band during their record release concert in Düsseldorf!
The band from southern Germany experiments with German-language pop-punk sounds and continually surprises with fresh songwriting tricks that elevate the variety and expressiveness of their songs to the next level, currently receiving much acclaim. YUNGBLUD, the DONOTS, GOOD CHARLOTTE, and CASPER can all serve as influences here – and that’s not all that can be said.
CASINO BLACKOUT - "Hinterhof Poesie"
Tracklist:
01 Im Dreck
02 Anti Ich (feat. GHØSTKID)
03 Für mich nicht
04 Wo es wehtut
05 Wir gegen uns (feat. MARATHONMANN)
06 Neonfarben
07 Nichts wird gut
08 Hinterhof Poesie
09 Mitte
10 Zwischenzeit
11 Durch den Tisch
The album release was celebrated last weekend during a release show at the packed Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf.
Tour dates:
24.06.2022 Munich - Backstage
30.06.2022 Leipzig – Naumanns
01.07.2022 Stuttgart - Juha West
14.09.2022 Düsseldorf - Tube
15.09.2022 Trier - Mergener Hof
supporting BROILERS
26.08.2022 Gießen, Kloster Schiffberg
27.08.2022 Losheim, Strandbad
It takes a lot of courage to stand by oneself. CASINO BLACKOUT has taken on this challenge on their third album “Hinterhof Poesie” more intensely and comprehensively than ever before. Confronted with unimaginably difficult recording conditions and influenced by a chaotic world situation, the band has repeatedly found ways to pull their third major project out of all the swamps of life. The result is an album with a musical language that is quite unfamiliar from the group. Instead of pointed German punk, CASINO BLACKOUT experiments with pop-punk and continually transforms its basic ingredients into adventurous songwriting tricks that consistently elevate the variety and expressiveness of the album to a new level.
When the band was in the preparations for their third album, the timing couldn’t have been more ungrateful. The Corona pandemic repeatedly prevented album recordings, and the band had to postpone studio appointments three times in total. At some point, frontman Florian Tragl decided to clear out a cluttered basement room and set it up so that it would be suitable for recordings. “At that time, I didn’t yet know that we would later record the entire album there, except for the drums,” Tragl recalls. “In the end, that was the best and most important decision for me because I finally had the time to experiment almost without limits. I could experiment with sounds and vocals and create guitar effects that I could never have implemented during an expensive studio time.”
The newly gained independence and the strong will to overcome all hurdles on their own lead CASINO BLACKOUT to an album that is as experimental and candid as never before. Already on the predecessor album “Fragment,” songs like “Gut genug” or “Bestehen bleiben” announced the new direction in the symbiosis of both anthemic and melancholic melodies, but only on “Hinterhof Poesie” can the new rhythmic direction fully unfold its breadth. The band elevates their sound to a new level primarily because they do not stick to a basic recipe but constantly confront their auditory color palette with new ideas. In the title track, for example, an E-drum beat builds up accompanied by broadly resonating guitar tones and eventually opens up into an ever-growing, captivating wall of sound. “Für mich nicht” unfolds a pop-punk anthem that could just as well come from GOOD CHARLOTTE.
And in “Wir gegen uns,” featuring MARATHONMANN singer Michael Lettner, CASINO BLACKOUT adds a synthesizer to their instrumentation, which gives its coherent sound environment significant emphasis. “Many artists from the new pop-punk wave from America have inspired us,” Tragl mentions. “It’s not just about the composing, but especially about the attitude of just experimenting wildly. There are simply no limits, except for those in your own head.”
That CASINO BLACKOUT needs this broad musical language becomes evident when one engages with the themes of “Hinterhof Poesie.” While the band had previously written very personal lyrics that were close to the individual, their third album sometimes also steps onto the grand stages of global discord. The opener “Im Dreck” addresses the need for recognition of people in the social media age and is aware of the paradox of being part of this construct at the same time. “Wir gegen uns” is the utopian description of a planet that can no longer be saved. A song that sends chills down your spine, especially because the described dystopia sounds very present. “Normally, I find it difficult to write about such topics in the CASINO BLACKOUT style,” says Tragl. “Such songs require a very direct writing style without many meta-levels; the message must come across unambiguously without room for interpretation. However, with this album, I felt that a personal – perhaps even therapeutic – writing style does not have to exclude a global political theme. Because when something affects me so deeply that I have to process it, it becomes part of me anyway.”
It is this necessity to scream out the horrors of the present world that makes “Hinterhof Poesie” such an inimitably genuine and deeply rooted album. CASINO BLACKOUT has rediscovered themselves on their third album because they have given themselves more space than ever to explore their possibilities. On this journey, they have found their most diverse and profound work to date, which, despite all the zeitgeist pain, still leaves an important thought: In every fight for a better world, we must never forget to take care of each other.
