Whoops! Fans of straight Alternative Rock music like played by Nickelback, Pearl Jam & Co sharpen your ears! Paint The Town Red, the debut album of the German band CREKKO, could be more than interesting to you! On Paint The Town Red you will find a bunch of flawless and straightforward catchy songs. Surely a big plus is the voice of Marco Selter who, in a positive way, nearly sounds like a copy of Nickelback’s frontman. A further bonus is the extreme catchiness resulting in choruses you can sing a long with often after the first and by no means later after the third time.
The production is clear and tight, giving the album enough drive and power. Well done! Another feature I personally really like is the fact that CREKKO come along a bit edgy and have some very slight metallic influences and as such keeping the pseudo tragic slush of many related bands at a very low (if at least noticeable) level.
Well… There is hardly more to say. Ok – some breaks maybe just a bit too long and I personally would also have liked one or two more levels of heaviness, say like Soil or Drowning Pool. Needless to say that innovation also can’t be found here. But why reinvent the wheel? This is just straight forward music with no real need for innovations.
Paint The Town Red is real fun and songs like More And More, Mooning (great!) or Anger just have to be played live and sung along by the crowd.
I keep my fingers crossed for CREKKO and hope that this album will not get lost in the flood of releases. A fine album like Paint The Town Red really deserves some form of commercial success. There are tons of potential fans out there, I guess. They just have to hear from CREKKO in some form.