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Hecker fool
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by Mark Taylor
Goodness me. If Maxilian Hecker isn’t stalkerishly intense in real life, he’s putting on a pretty good show here. Obsessive in its passion, ‘Fool’ forgoes any kind of detour, backstory or self-aggrandising trickery for a four minute profusion of unreturned devotion.

And I’m buying every second of it. Sincerity by itself is nothing. I’m sure I could sing totally sincerely about heartache and boredom and the declining standards of British children’s television. But I’d sound about as pleasant as a guinea-pig on heat. Whereas Hecker’s delicate vocals and knack for an insistent, poppy melody puts chancers like, say, Jeff Buckley to shame. ‘Fool’ floats nervously, but effortlessly, despite the weight of a heavy, lovesick, heart. Rather unlike Buckley, as it would happen. Ahum.

I’m going home now, before the humour police skin me alive.

  • Maximilian Hecker 8 / 10

Hmm...

I take it you were joking about Buckley being a chancer and I'm assume you just said it to get someone to post about your article.

Clearly it's worked!

Maximilian Hecker - Fool

Why is it I have absolutely ZERO comprehension of any of DIS reviews? Between the clever-clever commentary and the inane attempts at humour, the reader is left with !NO! impression of the record.

PLEASE DIS - hire new reviewers!!!

Re: Maximilian Hecker - Fool

I thought this review is perfectly comprehensible, and I would also argue that the boy Taylor is one of the best writers on DiS.

But that's just my opinion.

How would you like reviews to be written? What would you like to see from them? what's a good review?

seriously, we want to know as DiS is currently trying to work this one out...

Re: Maximilian Hecker - Fool

Just as an aside, to "hire" we'd need money. and we aint got any.




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