Für Dich Immer Noch Fanta Sie

Germany's foremost veteran rap group, die Fantastischen Vier, continue to age gracefully on Für Dich Immer Noch Fanta Sie, their eighth studio album in their two-decade career. While it falls well short of their best albums and breaks little new ground, it's nonetheless an impressive effort on which Thomas D, Smudo, Michi Beck, and And.Ypsilon experiment with plenty of different stylistic approaches without departing too far from what their fans have come to expect from them over the years. In their second decade, die Fantastischen Vier have proven themselves reliable. Since their early- to mid-'90s breakout period, when they released four albums in five years -- Jetzt Geht's Ab (1991), 4 Gewinnt (1992), Die 4. Dimension (1993), and Lauschgift (1995) -- and reigned as Germany's preeminent rap group, they've taken their time with the successive studio efforts 4:99 (1999), Viel (2004), and Fornika (2007). Concert tours and live albums helped satiate fans during the three- to five-year sp