For the purpose of better taste, this album was made in coffee machine. This is what lies in the description of the debut album by a Swiss band Coffee For The Restless. The band members are: Simon Gabahuler (bass), David Gabahuler (drums, vocal), Selina Isler (vocal), Roman Staub (vocal, guitar, drums), Lukas Oberholzer (guitar, vocal), Tobias Kalt (guitar, banjo). The album is titled Coffee Show which hints its lack of seriousness. Besides the above mentioned description, the band was not very verbose, but their style is labeled country/stoner/rock'n'roll/blues/rock/whatevershit.
This is a band who plays with sarcasm, irony and humor. They do not rely on cynicism and that is a good thing because they don't hold themselves as superior to other bands with similar tendencies, rather they play as they are the only band in the world and you have no choice but to listen to their music. Or it's as If there is no one to listen to them. Coffee Show is extremely laid back. Casual concept offers only one principle - fun, fun, and fun. Irony of the album is that this is a country band who decided not to make a party with whiskey. They threw party with coffee. Maybe for the morning after. Still, this is not the album for drinking coffee. It invites you to listen to it when you gather your friends and decide to drink something stronger. I can totally imagine listening to them in a local bar, drinking few bottles of beer per hour. Tuning of this big band is conspicuous, but the rawness is omnipresent also. This is a consequence of their decision to do everything on their own, without additional interventions or help on the side. Coffee Show sounds like they recorded it while getting drunk. And I say this in a very positive connotation. Tuning does not compensate for the absence of post-production, but that does not ruin the charm of their music.
Lukas' and Selina's vocals come through in a number called Melanie that sounds like gothic Americana performed by Tarantella. It is the only song where female vocal is emphasized. Wolf Lied and Zombie In My Backyard are first two rockabilly and hillbilly tracks on the album, and it comes as no surprise I labeled them this way since the band is more oriented towards rock than pop. Title track pulls off the concept of the album, while Cigarbox makes your ears smoke. Love Your Enemy is almost a blues song, while the biggest potential to be hit lies in track Coffee For The Restless. How crazy is that you have a track the same name as your band?
Coffee For The Restless have a long way to come to the spotlight. But it doesn't even seem like they want a spotlight. It seems that all they wanna do is have fun in their living room.
