DeWolff – Tascam Tapes

DeWolff – Tascam Tapes

Mascot – 2020

Rock, Soul

Rated: ****

I remember a Blue Cheer gig in my home town back around 2008. I remember me and my buddies watching this band of really young kids playing the warm up set for the few people already there. The band was called INFA and wasn’t really that interesting, except for the young guitar player. We all looked at each other and said: that kid is going places! That kid was Pablo van de Poel and has been touring the world with his two DeWolff brothers for a while now. Their thirteenth release is called Tascam Tapes and was recorded in every dirty little hole they visited the past year. Often recorded in the dressing rooms, toilets or one of the rented chambers in some rundown little shithole people dared call a hotel. Without amplifiers, without a drumkit, no Hammond organ but just some weird looking eighties synthesizers and rhythm tracks lifted of old soul songs. For a three piece band that is known for their massive sound on stage and wild sound on earlier records it is a damn different approach. And one that famously cost the band only fifty bucks to record. Well, it still has a massive amount of soul and can still sound angry, mean or filthy. But it is more laidback and seems to float through so many layers of soul it seems insane. It is a different kind of evolution and one that is definitely welcomed by a DeWolff lover from day one, cause the past records have been a steady line into the past, the sound of yore and the roots on all the greats that came before. This explores soulful dimensions that groove, that swing, that grate, that stutter and makes you long for more. Cause we know all about their hard rocking hard rock, their seventies approach and their psychedelic trucking. This is different and we love it!

(Written by JK)

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