DISCLAIMER: I don’t think I write stuff like this too well so please if you’re of a sensitive nature and prone to being offended easily or can’t handle grey areas of morality, don’t bother reading on.

This was one of those cases of, once I heard about it, I had to give it a listen. Prussian Blue are, in laymen’s terms, Smoosh gone Nazi (I have kinder words, I promise). They’re two young girls who love to sing and love, love, love to be “weiss, weiss, weiss”. Little Hitler-litas (I apologise, that came into my mind and I just had to use it). Sounds horrendous, right?

Mostly? Yes, it is. But I want to be quick to point out that it’s certainly not that bad as far as the morality, the seeming racism, is concerned. While the thinking behind some of these songs can definitely lead to horrific things, and I guess that could be a reason not to promote it, there’s no major indication to me that Prussian Blue are condoning violence or hateful or indeed any kind of racism per se. Hard core racists might listen to their music, sure, and they’ll probably love it and interpret it and use it. That’s their problem.

These girls are proud to be white. It’s a little, urhm, different, but I actually don’t hear anything too harmful. There are plenty of examples of people who are proud to be of other ethnic origins. Of course, the German language in places and the Nazi-ish font on the cover and talk of Aryans in the lyrics doesn’t help this argument But to be honest, it’s possible to listen to most of this album without even noticing all this.

Sometimes it really sounds horrendous. I like listening to Courtney Love and Hole sometimes, but sometimes her wailing makes me stop and say to myself, “What the f**k am I listening to and why?” and there’s more than a few such moments on this album.

Will I listen to it again? I don’t know. I might check out their next album, though. This whole review was way too long considering the subject but consider that I’ve had it as a draft for like 3 weeks or something. I really wanted to write this review to say it’s not that bad – it does have a modicum of artistic merit – and that small fact kind of surprised me.

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