By Nicholas Jason Lopez
Dutch dance powerhouse Joost Klein (or simply... Joost) stuffed his self-released tenth studio album 'Kleinkunst' with a plethora of collabs, big beats and easy words.
Some of those words include "Coachella," "Everyday," "Hardcore Junkie" (or was it "Hardcore Jerky" he was saying? We have to go back and check to make sure) and "Onions," because reasons.
Armed with the same lyrical prowess as that dude who said "I'm a banana," this is probably like nothing you've heard before... unless you've visited the wrong side of YouTube at two in the morning and came across a Die Antwoord or Gunther music video.
One glance at the artwork where we see a dapper Joost at the foreground of a blue curtain as he resembles a Gen-Z Dwight Schrute with an iPod nano at his fingertips (remember those?) is a reminder that this album isn't meant to be taken too serious.
"Panchiii" samples The Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch," a track famous (or infamous) for a video where the members ran wild in monkey suits and discuss the simpler things in life, like "Doing it like they do it on the Discovery Channel."
It's a microcosm of the low bar that this album sets for itself, for better or worse.
There are a few colorful minutes of glory, though.
"Capitalism :D" is best described as a mindless, bouncy anti-corporate dance affair and who wouldn't want to celebrate that? Bonus points for the humorous and creative claymation music video that'd give Bill Lumbergh heart palpitations.
"Medellín" also thrives in its homage to 90's hip-hop/dance sound a la Tag Team. We'd buy it is a type of "Whomp! There It Is" 2.0, but it ends far too shortly before we could get jiggy with it and finish our Crystal Pepsis.
Will 'Kleinkunst' break the music world as we know it? Maybe not necessarily. This mindless, unabashed thumpery is good for a spin, but if you need the party to last to the morning, look elsewhere.
