Album Review: Team O - Tales from the Lockdown (2021)
Team O - Tales from the Lockdown
Release Date: March 22, 2021
Label: selfrelease
Format: Cassette / CD / Digital
Length: 39:12 (43:52 including bonus track)
Genre: Garage Rock / Stoner Punk
Origin: Berlin, Germany
Team O - the original team - is the solo band by Timo Tolkmitt, also known as the bass player at DxBxSx and guitar player at Blutige Knie. A whole decade after the release of his album "Broken", Timo Tolkmitt used the first lockdown to record his "Corona Sessions Part I". The album on hand is yet another product of the COVID situation - technically and content-wise. Team O recorded the songs at home and at the rehearsal room. In the lyrics he concerns the new reality coined by the virus - isolation, people losing their jobs and facing poverty, people spiralling into severe poverty, capitalists benefitting from that, conspiracy theorists and the new right benefitting from that, and the general feeling that all of that sucks. All instruments were played by Timo Tolkmitt, except for the synths which were recorded by Gunnar Refardt. Responsible for mastering was Dennis Kern.
"Tales from the Lockdown" is a deeply fuzzy album. Dirty Garage Rock with a certain tendency to Heavy Blues Rock and the DxBxSx-like Stoner Punk create a beautiful fuck-off-attitude. The music perfectly fits the sarcastic and cynical lyrics by Team O. Thus, a massively rolling, smoking, and burning hot release has been created - the ideal mix of Garage, Punk, Stoner, Delta Blues, and a raised middle-finger.
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