Album Review: Love Machine - Düsseldorf-Tokyo (2021)

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Picture Credit: Love Machine

Love Machine - Düsseldorf-Tokyo
Release Date: February 26, 2021
Label: Unique Records
Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital
Length: 38:12
Genre: Krautrock / Indie Rock
Origin: Düsseldorf, Germany

Düsseldorf is the second biggest town in the German Federal State of Northrhine-Westphalia, and it is also the capital of this State in the Northwest of the Federal Republic of Germany. Furthermore, Düsseldorf is home to the biggest Japanese community and the only Japantown on German soil. Thus, the name of Love Machine's new album is comprehensible. No other Germany town is closer to Tokyo than Düsseldorf is.


"Düsseldorf-Tokyo" is a ten-track big city blues. Love Machine soulfully music melancholic thoughts and feelings that erase from within the anonymous mass of a metropolitan area. Stream-of-Consciousness narratives describe everyday situations of human life in an urban agglomeration, and thoughtful fiction tells us about consumerism, loneliness and dreams.


The music on "Düsseldorf-Tokyo" changes between the two turning points of easygoing levity and gloomy melancholy. Love Machine use a smooth mix of Krautrock and Indie Rock to musick those somatic expressions. The mid- and downtempo songs also show a certain impact of Neue Deutsche Welle, and the album's fastest song 'That mean old Thing' (video above) is a butt-moving Kraut'n'Roll banger.

Love Machine musick the emotional world of life in a big city extremely well. The ongoing ambivalence of vibrant spaces and inner monotony are expressed very comprehensibly. Although "Düsseldorf-Tokyo" does not fit my personal taste, I can highly recommend this album for fans of melancholic and thoughtful music.

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