Travelling (album)
Travelling is the ninth studio album by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. It was published on 23 March 2012 at EMI Music. The first single It 's Possible was published on 16 March 2012.
It is the second album since her comeback in 2009 and was parallel to the last, from February 2011 to September 2012 ongoing world tour. It is based on their album Tourism in 1992 and bears the same subtitle Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotel Rooms and Other Strange Places.
- 2.1 Bonus Tracks iTunes 2.1.1
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- 4.1 album
- 4.2 Singles
Background
Formation
That Roxette working on a new album, was first announced in July 2011 in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. The working title was 2rism and should make it clear that it was a continuation of Tourism. Previously, the title Tourism had already been 2 or simply as T2 considered; EMI Music have, however, insisted titles with numbers are not good, which is why the album was later renamed Travelling. Announced in early 2012 Per Gessle over the internet platform Twitter, the recordings were finished. In interviews at the time of publication, he was very complimentary about the work on the album:
"When working on" Charm School " started, I was tense and nervous because it was the first time after so many years that we were doing something again. But this time we were like a very tight -knit unit, and that made the work on " Travelling" much easier, I was able to enjoy it properly. "
The intention of this work was to map the positive energy and creative spirit of a band during a world tour. During the construction period of Travelling Roxette gave 79 concerts to a total of over 800,000 people comprehensive, intercontinental audience.
Songs
Similar to the concept of Tourism contains Travelling in addition to new, during the tour written and recorded in various studios around the world songs also re-interpret older, some previously unpublished material. The play See Me, 1994, the album Crash! Boom! Bang! created and released as a bonus track on the single Salvation, is included on the album in a completely new version, voice were retained for only the original recordings of Marie Fredriksson. Turn of the Tide in 1998 wrote for the album Have a Nice Day and incorporated in South Africa for the first time in 2011 in the Luxury Resort Sun City. Touched By the Hand of God was originally planned as the theme song of Roxette's previous album Charm School. In addition, the album contains a "Vocal Up Mix " of the ballad The Weight of the World, which was released in 2002 as part of the single A Thing About You, and a new, sung by Fredriksson version of the song Perfect Excuse from Gessle's solo album Party Crasher by, 2008. latter piece is also the first song by Roxette in the Gessle is not heard at least as a background singer.
There is also on the album three live recordings of the world tour: She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio ) from a concert on April 16, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, a performance of Stars as a soundcheck on May 20, 2011 in Dubai and a demonstration of the hit It Must Have been Love with Symphony Orchestra in the concert series Night of the Proms 2009 in Rotterdam, recorded the instrumental accompaniment and for Travelling was synchronized with later studio recordings of the vocal part and percussion inserts. In said event celebrated Roxette in 2009 after several years of rejecting awareness comeback.
Title list
All songs were written by Per Gessle, with the exception of See Me, comes the music of Marie Fredriksson.
Bonus Tracks
ITunes
Vinyl
Criticism
After the initial appearance of the album numerous reviews have been published in the media, the positive clearly predominated. Was praised especially the fact that it corresponds to the typical style of Roxette and the band stay true to yourself.
" Roxette make on Travelling, the ninth album of their career, harmless, catchy, beautiful pop songs. [ ... ] Roxette present songs that sound grown up, but take the teens in the heart. Songs that let off steam between the many reference points in the lexicon of pop music, and yet unmistakable are Roxette. Songs that never sound flat or one-dimensional, but which you can still sing along with the third ear is the latest. "
"The songs from the album listen Travelling in itself, as if Roxette had never been away. [ ... ] Invite you without exception for immediate sing along. Roxette sort itself anno 2012 with her melodious "Bravo" rock between other pop stars like Abba Sweden and Robyn, Lykke Li cardigans and a - totally independent, yet connected to the tradition of Scandinavian Hitfabrikation ".
"Travelling is again one of those few albums that end up in the CD player and can be heard without having to skip a song -. During times of Lady Gaga and other pop stars and artificial countless casting show Ephemera a real rarity "
The editors of the German review page MonstersAndCritics.de was critical of the fact that some of the songs were adapted to modern habits. For example, you could set in the first version of It 's Possible to " rock guitars, synth sounds, drum machines and Gessle filter hunted by singing " what "like a stale Erasure song " sounds. The second version, however, had become " with acoustic guitar and normal drums [ ... ] a beautiful and timeless pop tune ". For two sides of the same band would on the album is disclosed wherein the compound represented by the latter sample page is to be preferred.
On the websites of the radio station HR1 and 105'5 Spree Radio Travelling was presented as the respective album the week of 26 March to 1 April 2012.
Chart positions
In the Czech Republic Travelling has already placed two days after the publication in the national album charts, where it was number 7. The single It 's Possible rose in the German single charts at number 64. In Sweden, the album was awarded on March 28, for up to that over 20,000 copies sold with the Golden Record.