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“Naked and Alive,” a June breeze of a song, follows the spring release of “Reckless Child,” a gently hedonistic track that continued Milky Chance’s unbroken record of winning singles. It seems a little hard to believe given the eternal youth and energy of Dausch and Rehbein, but that streak has lasted for more than a decade. A little more than ten years ago, Milky Chance first caressed the globe with the multi-platinum “Stolen Dance” — a track that fused rock, folk, and dance music so effortlessly that it seemed hard to believe that it hadn’t been done quite like that before. Theirs was a sound ahead of its time, and since “Stolen Dance,” countless bands have tried to bottle the same magic. A few have come close. But nobody has ever matched the original.
The warmth of the new singles suggest that the German group’s fifth album will be its most engaging yet. Experiments in sound and songwriting conducted on the quietly provocative Living in a Haze [2023] have come to gorgeous fruition on “Naked and Alive,” a clever composition that preserves all of the elements that have made Milky Chance such an appealing band to follow while stepping out in sunny new directions. Though they’ve never been a gloomy pair, they’ve never sounded quite as optimistic as they do right now. They’ve got everything to sing for — and this is Milky Chance reborn.
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