In the manic depressive pandemic winter, "My Little White Rabbit" throw themselves into a colorful ball pit of psychedelic garage rock and 80s synth pop. Common for all those who currently love to curl up with tea and a cozy blanket in snow-covered window panoramas; here you get the full broadside with danceable up-tempo numbers and wafting guitar walls. The quintet from Hamburg around singer and guitarist Rike Pfeiffer used the forced break last year to nestle in the Hanseatic city's Schalltona Studios and record 12 songs for the follow-up to their debut "Bullets & Poor Hearts". The fruitfulness of this creative phase under slightly different conditions can already be felt in the first energetic seconds of "Bat in my Livingroom". The songs now seem more determined, more lively and the sound overall more mature. The band, whose name is an allusion to a classic by Jefferson Airplane, dominates the political discourse just as much as their instrumental craftsmanship. The content deals with important topics that are still of social importance in the shadow of the omnipresence of Corona. While "Rusty Nail" and "Moneymaker" are a scolding of the ever-popular enemy object "capitalism", after "Lucky People" the bells should ring about what a privilege it is not to have to be an animal among humans. And "Hello Mister" is undoubtedly already one of the most humorous songs of 2021 with its subtle feminist message, its radio pop appeal and charming synth sounds. The fact that "My Little White Rabbit" handles these topics so easily and unobtrusively may be due to their humorous nature, which you can personally convince and get infected by in the band's own podcast. In addition, Pfeiffer also emphasized in an interview with HORADS: "We are not a political band that constantly points the finger at others." Associations with stylistically related representatives such as "Blues Pills" or the Würzburg band "Wolvespirit" are constantly in the air when listening, but are only permissible to a limited extent. The Hamburg band is too happy to pull out the punk rock club, or occasionally present the listener with disturbing experiments that are not designed for song length. So it rarely gets boring on "Lowest Heights". It's just that the feeling of having heard everything before in one way or another is somehow difficult to shake off with the record. Apart from that, we think the genre mix is very successful. So much so that even the streaming algorithm has to look carefully in the end to find where to locate "My Little White Rabbit". At the same time, the young collective with "Lowest Heights", as well as "Sperling" recently, provides the best arguments for the young talent offensive of German bands, whose raison d'être is now more a matter of the lack of live performance opportunities than a lack of courage to innovate and a lack of talent. However, there was already a quiet promise of a performance in the Kessel in the interview, which is why we are slowly longing for relaxations for the music and culture industry twice and three times over. Until then, you can and should take the time to warm up to this up-and-coming band. Translated from: https://www.horads.de/albumschau-my-little-white-rabbit-lowest-heights/
