{"id":10749,"date":"2016-03-16T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=10749"},"modified":"2016-03-16T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:18:07","slug":"die-goldenen-zitronen-premiere-video-for-the-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=10749","title":{"rendered":"Die Goldenen Zitronen premiere video for ‘The Investor’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Die<\/a>Formed in Hamburg in the 1980s, Die Goldenen Zitronen<\/a> have built their stature as a punk band, evolving into a seminal art punk collective. With eleven albums under their belt, they have been making music for three decades, and have partnered with many artists including Peaches, Wesley Willis, Chicks On Speed, Fran\u00e7oise Cactus (Stereo Total), Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), and Michaela Meli\u00e1n, to name but a few.<\/p>\n

The end of last year saw them release Flogging a Dead Frog<\/em>, a new album consisting of reworked songs from recent albums. These songs, originally sang in German, are offered in this album as instrumentals or in an English version. On the one hand, “its instrumental tracks emphasize the fact that the band\u2019s sound has always been much more than a musical accompaniment for the unrelenting social commentary of singer Schorsch Kamerun”, explains the press release. On the other hand, it adds that other songs reworked in English “proves a consequent re-adjustment of the band\u2019s political scope, opening discourse on matters that have desastrously proven to not be exclusively pertinent to Germany.”<\/p>\n

‘The Investor’, originally ‘Der Investor’, taken from their 2013 album Who’s Ba<\/em>d,\u00a0 is one of the songs reworked in English. The collective have premiered a video to accompany it, directed by Ted Gaier, Katharina Duve and Timo Schierhorn. Watch it below, and if you have another minute or so, go dig the rest of the album, out now through Altin Village & Mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n