„Diese Frage ist zu gut, um sie mit einer Antwort zu verderben.“ Frei nach Robert Kochs Aphorismus machte sich im Jahre 2005 eine 5-köpfige Formation aus dem äußersten Osten Deutschlands den wunderlichen Ausspruch eines gelben Comichelden zum Bandnamen. Am 20.Januar 2012 veröffentlichten Do i smell Cupcakes? nun ihren Longplayer „SPRINGS“; ihr opulentes, vielversprechendes Debüt, das die gesamte 7-jährige Schaffensperiode dokumentiert. 13 facettenreiche Songs erzählen Geschichten von den Wurzeln in der Cottbuser Heimat, dem Erwachsenwerden und der problematischen Selbstfindung in der deutschen Hauptstadt. Eingebettet sind die durchkomponierten englischen Songtexte in einen bunten Rock-Pop-Sound, der satt instrumentiert und hymnisch daher kommt, dabei aber Frontmann Kevin Traeger und seine weiche, klare Stimme in den Mittelpunkt des Geschehens rückt, der sich bis in die Tiefen seiner Seele vorsingt.
"Harte Live-Schule und Veröffentlichungen in Eigenregie zahlen sich aus: Diese Formation aus Cottbus reicht ein mit allen Wasser gewaschenes Debüt tiefsinniger Popmusik ein. [...] Vor allem Frontmann Träger prägt die Gruppe und würde ihr in einer gerechten Welt auch zu internationalem Erfolg verhelfen, und zwar vom Fleck weg. In jedem Fall macht Zeug wie „Stranger & Me” oder „Backseat’s Broken” ganz locker Pippi auf COLDPLAY und Konsorten."
Musikreviews.de
"Die Band überzeugt mit einem nicht ganz gewöhnlichen Mix aus Indiepop und Britpop mit Streichern plus Bläsern, die durchaus mal an alte Jazzrockbands wie Chicago erinnern. So etwas kann schnell mal schief gehen, aber Do I Smell Cupcakes? machen irgendwie alles richtig. [...] Die Band hat das Zeug, sich an die Spitze des Deutschen Indiepop zu spielen."
Rezensator.de
"ein weithin sichtbarer Leuchtturm in der flachen deutschen Musiklandschaft"
Dietrich Gastrock
"The indie power popsters have managed to leverage their moniker into a brilliant marketing device. It’s only a skip from smelling cupcakes to liking cupcakes to eating them, then dying of insulin shock. But that’s always been the risk with power pop."
EXBERLINER über Do i smell Cupcakes?
children grow older younger
meanwhile we are killing all flies
just to see it’s impossible
to feel reality
oh, wavecounting machines next to our hearts
said no and gave us up,
now fools & kings in crippling swarms
urge the love behind the wall
but somewhere out of our minds
out of time
we are living our lives
so afraid
so afraid of
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
new formed waves are taking the bends
they pass by on a screen - longing for a dream
the autumn calls here i am to the wall in my heart
dividing me from you
sometimes i’m waiting for the summer
sometimes i’m waiting for the spring
sometimes i’m waiting for the happy days
but I’ll never do it again
falling leaves eat me alive
are you hungry when i die?
- the cannibal in you
pretty town steels me a kiss
i’m not sure if i’ll miss anything at all
sometimes i’m waiting for the summer
sometimes i’m waiting for the spring
sometimes i’m waiting for the happy days
but i’ll never do it again
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
so what is that all about?
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
swimming in sea, inside’s growing a tree
roots are gripping my feet
like soft contacts
i am hiding behind golden memories
- like endless bicycle dreams -
and wanna form horizons
walking to the next station, my drive is the disaffection
straight ahead into the future by denying your family tree
yesterday is over now and gaps refuse to let you go
you search your faith in honesty
but you don’t know where to search
you don’t know where to search
you don’t know where
walking to the next station, my drive is the disaffection
straight ahead into the future by denying your family tree
there’s another old man with a pretty smile,
another young child that will never die
the real man stays and doesn’t try
there is another compilation of aims and minds
so, never ask for a moral concept
we could deny what we loved so much but don’t try
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
who the hell are you in the twilight zone?
why’ve you left a trace of flesh & blood & bones?
you want to feel secure with all your broken veins
hey you, you have to follow me and draft some maps of us
and build a mould that brings our inside out
i am blind enough to catch you with my voice
i am blind enough to offer you a choice
hey you, you have to follow me down to the springs in us,
into the lake that keeps us warm every time
hey you, you have to follow me and draft some maps of us
and build a mould that brings us inside out
who the hell are you in the twilight zone?
why’ve you left a trace of flesh & blood & bones?
who the hell are you?
who the hell are you?
i still want to know
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
time is unbreakable but me
- an endless repeat
streets full of candlelight, so quiet
sacred melodies
walking with my little picture in my hands
missing, longing, searching for a pleasant home
but i crawl on those foreign paths to forget my old loves
hey, i am failing for you to stop this written fate
an one man parade in an one man world
hearts are drifting slowly to recognize themselves
hail & hate & loathing for the men on my back
because they scratch my eyes of wax
because they cause these mind-attacks
this circus leaves this town
the last goodbye to mr. clown - a dirty smile in the air
(my life in brackets) don’t waste any thoughts at all
i stay far away, there is nothing for me to discover
but it’s okay, there is nothing for eternity
i stay far away, there is nothing for me
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
snake devotion, lack of emotion
homeless & poor, lost in the ocean
and we have gone too far away to leave this sinking ship
and we have run away from us day by day
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
one hundred people strong in a crowd
thousands of them yell out so loud
why are the proud?
an important message from deep in your heart
lost in the stream, pushes you back to the start
to the gaps in your heart
the brighter the light above the street
the darker the night and the stars which i need
- a sparkless defeat
you’ve chosen artificial wings with the quantity of things,
now you see a sense of life
billions of human show that they’re fools
millions of them try to be cool
oh, poor, crazy mules
why wonderful brains feel it’s a bless
to change their ideas by joining the mass?
they couldn’t care less
you’ve chosen artificial wings with the quantity of things
to sell your personality
communication in 2010
means talking on studi and myspace
- the end of all days
one hundred years build a decade
one hundred more and it will be too late
why are you afraid ?
you’ve chosen artificial wings with the quantity of things
and celebrate you loss on earth
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
i’d rather prefer to sleep with a whore
than to give you sympathy, fridge
you crawled with the worms and fucked Eric Born
human failure leads you forward
the playground protects your soul that you buried
when you were a small child
when you feared that the cranes
may fall from the sky and suck out your emotion
i recognize you in the largest crowd but you’re just a human being
can’t you see that? can’t you see you’re all alone?
we still debate but it’s much too late
in the mirror lays a pattern
you crawled with the worms and fucked Eric Born
you won’t get my sympathy, fridge
the playground protects your soul that you buried
when you were a small child
when you feared that the cranes
may fall from the sky and suck out your emotion
you were my key to happy days
but your heart dies and dies
can’t you see that? can’t you see that you’re all alone?
don’t be someone you are not
be the one i love most of all
can’t you see that?
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
hey little man, why are you crying?
i know you shouldn’t lie here in this room
hey little man, listening to your breathing
‘cause your body stopped moving
from your head till your great tiny toe
hey little boy, you will be the biggest man
the world will lie in your hands
but for now: sleep well, my friend
hey little man, don’t lose control
about your body and your soul, keep control
hey little man, all the fuckers in the train
don’t know anything about pain
they can leave, but you will stay in my mind
Writers:
kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
i am special but nobody knows
where are all my feelings?
i’m not able to show
it feels like a stranger in me is hunting my tongue with my teeth
there was a man, he tried to explain
where i should be and where i am
it feels like a stranger in me is hunting my tongue with my teeth
… stranger & me
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
street, dead end street
and you sleep in the Backseat Mountains’ vale
no, we don’t function anymore
bleed, still bleeding
and i treat you like never before
as if you’d crossed the frontier
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
you see a world you’ve never seen
you catch a hand that falls apart
you dreamed about
exploding stars, invisible birds arriving in march
i heard your voice from the ferris wheel
up in the clouds, above the weed
and Plänterwald still sleeps in war
oh, life and death sound so similar
and you swear, time is running out of our hands
and i fear, sand is coming out of my head
but you swear, sand is running out of our hands
but i see, sand is running down your legs
the sand is running down your legs
the sand is running down your legs
Writers:
dennis depta, robert ,slady' marinow, maximilian tischler, paul benjamin tischler, kevin traeger
Verlag:
Edition Mickle Muckle / ROOF MUSIC (Dorette Gonschorek)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
