Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen

Nothing is good and everything could be better. Bad-tempered and confident, focused and distractible, the Berlin trio Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen seeks happiness on their fourth studio album, Lieder, where it crunches in the nylon punk framework: in the dead end with a turning circle, in the short bright nights and long dark days, on the edges of everyday life, where fragments of language mourn and dance. Fourteen montages that start over fifteen times, turn, move forward—and promise. Where “Lieder” doesn't push, that's where it's most urgent; where it rumbles, it's smooth; and where it's quiet, it gets loud.