Future Prawn / Kaskadeur

In the organizer's words:

It's been three years since Future Prawn entered the criminally underplayed stage of garage glam rock with their debut: An album like a club discovered by chance in a backyard, where slackers and punks cavort just as much as psychedelic nerds and glam fans.

Now it's time for the next performance: with "Lovesickness and Rice", band leader and multi-instrumentalist Martin Mann has once again produced an album that hits the sweet spot between West Coast songwriting à la Ty Segall and flamboyant pop à la Lemon Tigs with charming ease.

The album manages to be both more mature and more playful than its predecessor: the sound has become more colorful, Mann and his band let acoustic daydreams flow into epic fuzz riffs, combine Mellotrons with Marc Bolan and synthesizer loops with soft rock smoldering. Even soft and delicate tones are given more room to breathe.

The songwriting has taken on a much more personal note: Mann makes laconic observations about sleepless nights at the kitchen table ("Lovesickness and Rice"), veers over to nostalgic childhood memories ("Old Cups") and processes the estrangements within his own family during the corona pandemic in the wistful "Wir kleben".

While the songs on the first record were still in English, they are now entirely in German, which reflects Mann's process of finding his own musical language: "I realized that I feel much more comfortable writing lyrics in German," says Mann. "I also felt that every record should bring something new to the table. I didn't want to repeat myself."

On "Liebeskummer und Reis", Future Prawn present themselves as a mature band that knows how to play to their strengths with their newfound style and add surprising new facets to their sound. An album that touches, warms, confuses and delights - and is quite simply a lot of fun.

Text: Erik Wenk

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