Kölsch - DerDieDas

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  • Like the best Kölsch songs, "DerDieDas" is nearly impossible to hear without imagining a sea of fist-pumping Europeans. Rune Reilly Kölsch's first new original in quite a while, "DerDieDas" is also the first taste of his upcoming LP, 1983, a record that he says was inspired by family drives around the continent when he was a youngster. "DerDieDas" taps deep into Kölsch's childhood nostalgia with a title taken from the theme song to Sesamstraße, the German version of the popular children's show Sesame Street. Even by Kölsch's usual mass-appeal standards, "DerDieDas" is simplistic—but that's part of its power. The central melody is a plink-plonk progression elevated to a grand level thanks to a beefy rhythm. There's an appealing naiveté to the track's construction, and what it lacks in hooks, it makes up for in delirious enthusiasm—it's like a kid who just wants one last ride on the waterslide. "Two Birds" strikes an equally functional chord, but with a string melody that merely paces back-and-forth over a classic Kölsch bassline, it's merely solid where "DerDieDas" is transcendent.
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      A1 DerDieDas B1 Two Birds
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