or so say I, anyway<\/a>). And any song that features a refrain of \u201cto hell with Nazi scum\u201d is a winner. The same is true of the album\u2019s outlier, an amphetamine-paced punker called \u201cThe Foul Stench of Our Time.\u201d It\u2019ll conjure mental images of Jello Biafra. The record as a whole, though, is decidedly more melodious than odious, and is thus recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move quickly beyond the band name; it makes no sense to me, but then I\u2019m not German. Robocop Kraus\u2019 latest \u2013 their first release in 15 years \u2013 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[5163],"class_list":["post-25393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-robocop-kraus","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25395,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393\/revisions\/25395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Let\u2019s move quickly beyond the band name; it makes no sense to me, but then I\u2019m not German. Robocop Kraus\u2019 latest \u2013 their first release in 15 years \u2013 is scintillating pop that recalls \u201880s alternarock, British variant. There\u2019s a highly propulsive vibe to the songs on Smile<\/i>, speeding along as they do like a musical version of the sleek and high speed tilting trains that crisscross the European continent. Throbbing arpeggiated synthesizers gleam and glisten, but they\u2019re applied inside arrangement that offer plenty of guitars and (presumably) real drums giving the whole affair a more organic feel than it might otherwise have. Subtle echoes of early \u201870s motorik<\/i> make themselves known on cuts like \u201cOn Repeat,\u201d but the chiming pop values of the song render it more accessible than Neu! can be.<\/p>\n