Album Review: Milky Chance - Sadnecessary

This debut album is as laconic as singer Clemens Rehbein's slurred vocals. The German duo – Rehbein and producer Philipp Dausch – are from a small town called Kassel, and have released an album of equally modest proportions. Its singles, Stolen Dance and Down By The River, are wiggly earworms, but the rest of this subdued collection struggles to lift itself beyond its own complacency. While not being able to sing has never stopped talented songwriters in the past, Rehbein sounds like a German exchange student with indigestion. Sadnecessary is an acquired taste.