Euringer has long since been one of my favorite albums from the MSi mastermind Jimmy Urine, I loved it from the moment I first listened to it on a rainy afternoon during late 2020 whilst making cookies in the living room. From the poeticism to sound which, as Homelander so succinctly put it once is the definition of, "Yummers." Be it the catchy and delicious synthesisers electrifying the mind and body, latching on rhythmically and emotionally; or multi-faceted melodies detailing both the highs of ego and lows of sardonically sung self-deprecation.
Beginning with a soft, atmosphere-setting robotic sounding voice delivering a Trigger Warning detailing the coming contents of the album, leading into harsh opening war-like sirens and Serj Tankian from System Of A Down belting out his lines contrasting to Jimmy's lightly and sarcastic vocal delivery that, "If It Ain't You Today It Will Be You Tomorrow". Jumping in then into That's How Jimmy Gets Down, Problematic, then later echoed within Detroit And Halfway Thru The Tour as well this mixed grandiosity with mirror pointed vulgarity. Coming then from that pointing into a more interpersonal and unique tone with melancholic and memory-inspiring Be Afraid of Who You Are and Piece of Me. Stepping up then to more high-energy, yet cynically infused covers of Wuthering Heights and more towards the end of the record experience What A Fool Believes. Back into the grandiosity with the aforementioned Detroit followed up with the nihilistic lovesong duet with Jimmy joined by his wife Chantal Claret of the band Morningwood leading into a collaboration with Grimes (as well as his parents making an appearance) for the song The Medicine Does Not Control Me which regards the tendency to try getting out of one's own head in some non-sober way. High energy grandiosity eventually gets its final triumphant and hilarious return and retortion to this idea of being problematic over words and actions used in Jimmy's art over the decades, Do You Kiss Your Mama With That Mouth and retorting that it is in fact he who did it to the listener's mother. As the album nears its close with a final featured guest appearance from Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance and The Hormones in a defiant track declaring one just a Sailor In A Lifeboat where one's never gonna get fucked in the head or killed in the end. Glitching into Random EMO Top Line Generator brings back the flare which was so common on Mindless Self Indulgence songs where it makes fun of both the singer and giddy listeners; bleeding into the albums end from the bullshit that isn't his or anyone's problem, judging the Two and a Half Years spent working on the cinematic experience and featuring a nostalgia-inducing and reminiscing take on an old Coca-Cola jingle. With that, the album ends back where it began.
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