Nikki Puppet
Into the Wild

Riding backwards into the wild, under the scorching sun, through a desert. That is what happens when German quartet Nikki Puppet release a new album, something they have been doing since over a decade – releasing albums that is. It is a female fronted quartet and their new album has a fairly uninteresting artwork and I would say that the music is about as uninteresting as that artwork.

Rock music with female vocals, in the same style as several other German bands like Warlock or Doro to name some you might know. It is an album that offer nothing we haven’t heard before or anything that seems fresh or original. The vocalist is quite ordinary and offer nothing special, the same can be said about the production as well – it offers nothing really exciting in terms of style. The songs are of a variety that you can expect from an album of the style, you could say that they are creatively cautious or lacks sense of adventure.

Into the Wild lacks that wild and adventurous sensation you would want from an album that is supposed to take you into the wild. The album is missing a bit of energy and life, it feels pretty boring – there are no surprises and nothing really great about this album. It is almost like they were going for mediocre, but why would you do that? Perhaps they were just afraid to make something outside the box, something that might eliminate some fans – but if you just cowardly make the same stuff as everyone else it will often have the same effect.

Can’t say that I am impressed by what I hear when I listen to this album, it is a pretty boring one and you would do pretty well without it. I doubt that it is an album that will be far up anyone’s top lists.

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