Nine years have passed since Urlaub in Poland also announced its dissolution with the release of its fifth album Boldstriker. But drummer Jan Philipp Janzen and multi-instrumentalist and singer Georg Brenner have always formed one of those rare and highly unlikely bands who, despite market laws to the contrary, have put the context of their own work above trends and opportunities - without denying that they inhabit a particular historical moment. Thus, on All, their unexpected sixth album, it becomes immediately clear that the term ?Reunion?, at least in the common sense, does not do justice to the matter. For All is light years away from offering a lukewarm infusion of former recipes for success. Instead, the album is highly ambitious and sounds fresh in its concentrated performance - yet not like a debut. For the considerable advantages of a long-term musical relationship are noticeable at every point on the album. This does not only refer to the tightness of playing together, which was and is actually so unbelievable, as everyone who has seen Urlaub in Polen live says. What is also meant is a musical level of familiarity with oneself and with each other, which is difficult to achieve, and which has always carried the band's musical journeys of exploration and which balances the dynamics and structures of All as a whole. The play of these interactions is accentuated by the production, for which Janzen (among others founding member part of Von Spar, current drummer of Die Sterne and producer of Die Sterne, The Field, PTTRNS, Albrecht Schrader etc.) and Brenner are also responsible.
