The Devil, You Me
Occupation
- Vocals, Guitar: Markus Acher
- Bass: Micha Acher
- Drums: Andi Haberl
- Electronics: Martin Gretsch man
The Devil, You Me is the seventh studio album by the band The Notwist. It was released on 2 May 2008 with the label City Slang.
Formation and style
The previous album Neon Golden had become the biggest success of the band - both in the sales, as well as in the reception by the critics. With Neon Golden The Notwist had succeeded the first great success in both the U.S. and Japan. Accordingly, great was the pressure weighing on the band with respect to the next album. Markus Acher spoke of an " incredible expectations "
In contrast to the previous album back in The Devil, You Me classic singer-songwriter elements in the foreground. The typical Notwist " crunching and crackling ", the background noise from the computer Martin Gretsch 's missing on the plate almost completely. The focus is mostly acoustic guitar and the voice of Mark Aher. Were part of the band, Neil Young, Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen called the formative influences.
The Berlin Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra has recorded arrangements for several tracks on the album.
The first piece was offered for free download before the regular release date "Good Lies". With lines like " Let's just imitate the real until we find a better one" ( German as: " we imitate the real until we find something better " ) treated the song on the one hand, the new, created by mass media such as television and the internet interpretations of reality, on the other hand, the view of the affluent society to poorer countries.
About the title "Where in this World" also advance a music video with the cast Sandra Huell and August Diehl has been published.
Reception
The readers of the magazine Spex chose the album The Devil, You Me # 3 on the charts of the year 2008. In the reader 's charts plattentests.de it reached # 5
Somewhat subdued the reaction of the critics of music magazines fell out. It abolished the album in the critics' annual charts of the intro to 4th place, with 31 Visions place
Reviews
" This is the miracle of The Notwist: they do not verschwurbeln simple songs with contingent noise. You pass through the complexity and arrive at a more exciting simplicity, in which the Soundfetischist enjoy the subtle polyphony, where you also can simply wallow moody. The fact that this miracle succeed on eleven of eleven pieces, which makes the band in this country by no one. "
"Against the facets of" Neon Golden "modifier, the long and hot -awaited new album," The Devil, You Me " once throttled disappointing. As the now once is in good boards so something happens only at the second, third, fourth passage. The melodies are clearer. Or better: it becomes clear that it was always this band at the end just to nachpfeifbare melodies. The Notwist had one on " Neon Golden " taught to hold in a pop song anything is possible. Now they seem to want to say: All is not everything. After a refined, inside and out produced to the last detail record they have now recorded eleven songs which, like the first, called "Good Lies" or the third called "Gloomy Planets", live from the melody and not of what a melody can not stand it if they shoot at from all sides with gimmicks, with banjos, cellos and burp from the laptop. "
" Acher raves about " many older songwriter stuff and gospel music "that he had heard the album during the recording, he tells of the " interest in ambiguity " of" different angles, resulting in a Song, " from the turmoil of the music work, yes, of course. well from the long back and forth, which makes the songs so wonderfully open That in the end of this process, then there are no ten-minute prog-rock monster with 37 different sound layers, the actual performance of Notwist. You want to be pop band, already out of spite. More precisely, a pop- development program in the border landscapes, jazz and electronics. "