Empty Bones - Speed, Commitment and Luck (2025) Hi-Res

Empty Bones are a garage rock quartet from Bremen, Germany, featuring Cederik Schwarz, Julian Kramp, Maximilian Bopp and Tim Andreas Maziull. It took them about 10 years to record their first full length album, but here it is, appropriately titled Speed, Commitment and Luck. The titles of the thirteen songs—Empty Nights, Drop In Drop Out, Drunk, Defuse Me, Funfair, and so on—reveal a period of considerable fun and quite a bit of beer, something that, with a critical eye, could also be seen as self-sabotage.

Anyway, this is over half an hour of raucous tunes with unstoppable riffs, for those who like their music raw and fast. Closing track Your Love is a delicious but almost unrecognizable cover of Jackie Wilson’s (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher, one that will turn any gig into a dancing mass full of smiles and sweat.