She is a child of the 90s, rap is her companion, brought her to the poetry slam stages at the age of 15 and provided enough material for two albums. Now Yasmo has landed on the third musical work.
There is an art to putting words and sentences together in such a way that – whether fast or slow – the focus is always on the content. You could fall in love with the music of the Klangkantine alone with great joy of playing and variety. The 31-year-old Viennese is a clever person. She knows how to get straight to the point (“All”), but also has an original approach to relevant topics of our time. “I used to write sentences, now I write sales,” she raps in the opener “100K.” Not everyone has a dad to fix it. The working-class kid knows.
“No means no means no,” it says elsewhere, plain text that there are limits in interpersonal life and whoever says no is not a spoilsport. Life on the Internet, in which there is only one manipulative opinion, namely one’s own (“Block”), and far too many forget that one’s Internet avatar cannot replace real life, in which nothing works (“TL;DR”) also finds its place critically.
The great seriousness also has its funny side. “Who still says cheese today and takes a photo of the others,” it says in “Cheese,” and in the end Yasmo has only one wish: “Please stay good, please stay with yourself.”
Yasmo & the sound canteen “Loud and Lost” (Ink Music)
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