{"id":111059,"date":"2023-11-21T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=111059"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:03:25","slug":"autogramm-music-that-humans-can-play","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/autogramm-music-that-humans-can-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Autogramm – Music That Humans Can Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Autogramm\u2019s new album Music That Humans Can Play<\/em> is what happens when four talented and well-established musicians just decide to have fun. Gone are the days for Jiffy Marx, CC Voltage, The Silo, and Lars Von Seattle of being too punk for positivity. Their high-octane power pop energy boost is sure to make even the most hardened pessimists among us want to dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The album starts with \u201cBorn Losers\u201d which answers the age-old question, \u201cWhat would it sound like if Bruce Springsteen went through a synth phase?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWannaBe\u201d however shares little in common with the Brit-pop song of the same name. It is instead an epic tune with themes of self-empowerment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHey Allie\u201d is the gorgeous epitome of the “new” newwave. It makes sense that CC Voltage wrote this song for his newborn daughter. This whole album sounds like a letter to the next generation\u2014saying that it\u2019s going to be okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What the lyrics lack in subtlety they make up for in relatability. It sometimes starts to feel like a self-empowerment seminar but these days we really do need someone to tell us, \u201cIt\u2019s not the end of the world.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it\u2019s cheesy but is that really such a crime? Autogramm has the motivational speaking qualities of Andrew W.K. with the musical qualities of The Cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The album comes in so hot that they almost box themselves in. When you start at 100 it\u2019s a bit hard to carry on from there. They do try to slow things down with \u201cWestbound\u201d and \u201cAlways Going to Be My Girl\u201d which feel a little out of place in the context of the rest of the album.\u00a0They are incredibly self-aware, which is most evident in the appropriately named synth-pop\/punk track \u201cPlastic Punx.\u201d \u201cPunks not dead but every show we play takes another year off our lives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hopefully they\u2019re wrong about that one because if they can play this live with even a fraction of the energy on this recording it would be incredible.\u00a0This album is full of nostalgia without being afraid of progress. It does at times start to sound like \u201cBaby\u2019s First New Wave Album\u201d but if there\u2019s any hope for the next generation, we have to start them young.\u00a0Maybe it\u2019s not serious or remarkably nuanced. But maybe it doesn\u2019t have to be. It will almost certainly put a smile on your face and really what more can we ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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