Favorite Record (Album 2025)

Convertible

Indie Pop

All my favorite records are diverse. Like the „Favorite Record“, that comes with nine various songs. For each of them, an artwork is lying on the carpet on the album cover, like a collection of vinyls. An ashtray and a lighter can be found between, and a hand is holding the whole scene as an image in the back, making it an infinite picture.

Mastermind behind Convertible is Hans Platzgumer, who is known e.g. for H.P. Zinker (Matador Records 001) and tours with his book „What Goes Up Must Come Down“. Even though it already includes a playlist, the „Favorite Record“ could serve as soundtrack as well while reading. 

Out via Noise Appeal Records, it starts with a piano and a tangoresque rhythm in „Ticking & Revving“. The Pop approach and Bowie mood harmonize excellently. Choir parts even brighten up this danceable melodies and ‚let it shine‘. Titles like „Stalemate“ bring up different bands like Stone Sour, yet the music is more of beautiful Eels. 

Several songs come with video like „House Arrest“. Isolated behind the windows of the Vorarlberg Museum, Hans Platzgumer stares down on the ‚ice pavilion‘, the ‚queen of the sun‘, the Lake Constance. Whereas the following „Shrouded Trees“ comes with organic drums, motivating to go outside like the Foo Fighters with a touch of Lenny Kravitz. 

Continuing with an 80s Funk feeling like some gab&gal but Iggy Pop pulling the strings, the title „Lift The Needle“ suggests that the record would be over. Max Parovsky (Kruder & Dorfmeister, Friedberg and more) produced a partially animated video like Anton Corbijn. 

Yet the encore „Blip In Time“ is awaiting, going bit back in time again. „The Warriors“ or „Piedone“ could walk on screen to this score with Dr. Opin flavor. Finally, Convertible’s „Favorite Record“ could get one of your favorites, with a lot of Soul and Jazz like David Helbock, Alex Skolnick or Bill Murray.