About traumahelikopter's
titled debut ten years ago, Muziekweb wrote on the upside down that the band name "fits the music the trio makes: unhurried garage rock, as if the three band members are on their way to an emergency room at breakneck speed. The three Groningen natives soon changed musical tack, so the distinctive band name now covers the load a lot less well. Hopefully this does not mean
… that fans of still energetic, but also wildly melodic and at times even melancholy guitar songs will ignore the band. Listen on this fourth band album - released more than six years after predecessor Competition Stripe - for instance to the beautiful Please Don't ('please don't take our youth'), Leaving On Your Own (with its handclaps and the second voice of singer Hannah Lahaije) or the desperate Geen Zon (No Sun), the first Dutch-language song by frontman Mark Lada. And note that they effortlessly rival those of an internationally lauded band like Kiwi Jr.. (RME)more
