Burn down the city, leave the country, go underground, there wasn't much else left really. How do you move on after the entirely plausible megalomania of "Pop & Death I + II," a 20-song grandeur, Die Heiterkeit's biggest throwdown to date? With an even bigger throwdown, of course. "Was Passiert Ist" gathers 11 songs about loneliness, disillusionment and disorientation - and meets these gloomy topics with such radiantly bright sovereignty and serene grandeur, as they have not yet been heard in German pop. Never has this always a bit mysterious, cool-cool band sounded closer and more personal. Relentless comparison ferrets can paint a new reference comparison idea in the vocabulary notebook next to their double and triple underlined, slowly already richly yellowed "Nico": The fourth serenity throwback, once again produced by Moses Schneider, is a timeless gem, elegant and and eternally valid as "Pet Sounds." Effortlessly, Stella Sommer's vocals on it stroll through the very big themes of insecurity that many people find so hard to endure, that demand a pop song to be, please, less complicated than life, that confuse love with clinginess and interest in others with self-sacrifice.
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