The title initially sounds like a needy home builder in times of low interest rates. But no, it’s Fuck € 0 from the punk rock metropolis Bad Wildungen who are serving us their second album after the debut “Die Taschen sind leer”. One would like to compete with the boxing hype of German street rappers with a chic cardboard box, packed full of patches, buttons and an authentically copied sheet of text. In any case, it seems much more personable.
Stylistically nothing has really changed. Very jagged German punk with pleasantly rounded vocals. Here and there a melody or even harmony actually appears. Yes holla, is that still punk at all? The sound is definitely a good step forward and sounds a lot more professional. The songs also offer more variety. When you heard the first song after the umpteenth beer and couldn’t quite keep up with the lyrics, it was sometimes difficult to tell the songs apart.
So if the first half of “Please Loans” is still in the usual quick-snotty style, variety creeps in afterwards. “No right”, “drinking is work” and “input output” slow down a bit and sometimes I like it best. It’s great that my favorite is a quick number again after all: “Occupational safety” is a good minute long without the intro and gets to the heart of the relationship with contract work. I can hear about 23.3333 times on the way to work and then I’m in the “right” mood on Monday morning. A couple of songs just slip through because they are structured according to a very similar scheme. But they are still okay and there are no total failures. “FCK NZS” isn’t the most original track either, but hey – as long as there are more Nazis than songs against them, I don’t want to complain. “Paderborn to be wild” is not a hymn to the city, but rather (surprise) dedicated to the beer of the same name. I need a couple of them to be able to endure the entire length of the reef. But definitely a hit in Paderborn.
Fuck 0 € doesn’t do anything here that you haven’t heard before, but they have recognition value and manage to combine fun, drinking and more serious topics skillfully and uncomfortably. In general, the desire for further development is definitely noticeable. If the (online) performance of the band is quite funny and silly at first glance, there is more to it on closer inspection. You know “that one serious song” from most German booze bands and turn away with horror. Not here.
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