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There’s no underselling here; they are building high. The band’s self-confidence seems as great as their success. They can look confidently into the world, having shown with their last album, sold-out concerts, and chart entries that they know how to do what they do very well. I also received the last album very positively (see: http://www.ramtatta.de/s/reviews/f/details/id/4111/ “Black Edition“ and here: http://www.ramtatta.de/s/reviews/f/details/id/3881/ ) and I still enjoy listening to it. It rocks, it has guts, and it’s incredibly cool.
The bar is set high. What can “Flames of Fame“ do?
After the opener “Bullpower“, the song “Do It“ follows, which has already been released with a video. The song and video fit together very well. Everything is perfectly placed, and this song also stands out well without visuals. A typical song from the Berliners of THE BOSSHOSS.
What stands out when listening, even after multiple listens, is that the album hardly differs from their last album. Upon first listen, I even thought that the songs from “Liberty of Action“ had just been re-recorded with new lyrics. This isn’t entirely wrong, as the band plays their style and makes no experiments. On the contrary, the brass from the last album is far less involved in the songs of “Flames of Fame“.
The successful formula from the last album has been applied unchanged to “Flames of Fame“. The result is an album without surprises, perhaps a bit calmer than “Liberty of Action“, but an album that leaves no lasting impression.
Alec Völkel and Sascha Vollmer are still on the jury of “The Voice of Germany“ and tell people who don’t know how else to help themselves but to present their talent in a casting show what they should do to use their talent to be successful. The cowboys seem to have forgotten to reflect on themselves; otherwise, something like “Flames of Fame“ wouldn’t have come out.
This 11-song strong album is not bad, but if “Liberty of Action“ didn’t exist. Since that album already exists, this release is at best boring; one could also say, as a fan, frustrating.
