Bring mich nach Hause

Take me home is the fourth studio album by the German band Wir sind Helden. The album was released August 27, 2010 at Columbia and was the first release of the band after a nearly two-year break. In addition to the standard CD and a special limited edition was released, on which all the songs were re- recorded acoustically. Even before the publication of the title was released all as single on August 6. The album debuted in the first chart week both in the German album charts as well as in the Austrian album charts at No. 1. The album's title track was used as the soundtrack for the drama The coming days. 7 months after the publication, in March 2011, was awarded Bring me home in Germany with gold for 100,000 records sold.

Recordings

As a producer, the band chose the Englishman Ian Davenport. He was recommended to them by a friend and was particularly impressed by his taste in music, which largely coincided with the band. The band booked early 2010, the tritone studio in Berlin for the period of three months, one alone just for the rehearsal of the songs. During the stay, the studio band Selig took in the neighboring studio on their album From eternity to eternity.

The photographs of the base tracks found for the first time live, with the support of the studio musician Jörg Holdinghausen on electric bass instead, while for the previous albums, the instruments were recorded and overdubbt individually. The first recorded analog recordings on magnetic tape and digitized from the tapes later post-processing. Compared to the previous albums, the band began less synthesizer, instead, listen to traditional instruments such as accordion, oud or banjo. A total of 15 titles were recorded, three of which are not included on the album. One of them, The Wasp, was used as the B - side of the pre- published 20 August 2010 single Everything.

Title list

Reviews

Artur Schulz writes of laut.de that present themselves the title varied, nimble and handmade. The album was " advised harmonious Hero typical crankiness and all sorts of text - bon mots " with. The online magazine whiskey - soda.de called the album the result of the efforts of the band to do what she could best: " write cryptic lyrics and put beautiful melodies including". It break with previous albums and see a whole new mature side of the band. You had managed an album that no longer let go of one. Stephan Müller from plattentests.de also noticed a break with the previous albums, past is the time of the synthesizer sounds, the band sounded " gesettelt, worn, flat said, thoughtful ." Among the texts Müller writes that, will find pleasure in them both handset, which so far " too cheesy " found the band as "those who see Judith Holofernes a great writer ."