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...