Go backstage with The Music and receive FREE:

  • Exclusive members-only editorial, charts
  • Our subscriber-only newsletter
  • Members only competitions to win tickets, experiences and more
  • Access to our street press archives
  • First access to our exclusive limited edition vinyl variants

Thank you for being a part of our community! Enter your email address as verification and you'll be taken backstage right away.

Please ensure that you provide a valid email address.

Album Review: Milky Chance - Sadnecessary

StarStar

Sadnecessary is an acquired taste.

More Milky Chance Milky Chance

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.