Echoes from the past

To a little sort my thoughts and lines, advance my personal favorites by placebo. The debut placebo was exciting and rough and showed the potential. With Without you I am nothing and Black Market Music Placebo have then delivered their masterpieces and classics. Both albums are full of songs that I still like to listen to over and over again today. Sleeping with Ghosts held a number of new electronic gadgets ready also had a high density of class songs, but came no more to connect with the two predecessors. With Meds then set for myself is a trend a placebo stagnated, although of course at a high level, but it moved in a certain indifference and -mütigkeit. A few songs still stood out. And Battle For The Sun set the still continuing, rockier and simpler than the previous, still good, but unfortunately also always arbitrary in the sound and the songs.

Loud Like Love does not continue this trend. From the very first bars, you know immediately that one is on a Placebo album. The unrest, which is generated by the reef, always linked to the emotional mood swings, the texts that still revolve around the same issues, and then of course the voice and paraphrasing of Molkos than the large constant. For the less experienced (and obsessed) placebo listeners this album probably sounds like any other. Unlike Battle For The Sun is sound-wise not everything sounds the same. Likewise, the pace has taken some frequent and varied.

And the songs are once again better. The first single TOO MANY FRIENDS and HOLD ONTO ME, with the very atmospheric gemurrmelten middle part are classic good Placebo songs, catchy and duly Drive or is atmospheric. Other songs go one step forward. Exit Wounds, for example with a modern electronic sound robe and almost shameless drum machine sound, but only in the verses, the chorus will then most wonderful rock. Or PURIFY, that sounds almost by Industrial, but with his gloomy bass playing and the classic placebo subjects to temptations still gets more than the curve. In these songs shows placebo, that they have actually arrived in 2013, and not just constantly repeat only once their successful formula for success. Elsewhere, the own back catalog is then with a wink cited, the ballad A MILLION LITTLE PIECES borrows piano and percussions in song to say goodbye, ROB THE BANK goes with his screaming guitars even a nice step towards Every You and Every Me.

Conclusion: A significant increase, no new masterpiece, but better than Battle For The Sun, finally back with melodies that get stuck. As an old friend, a nice pleasant echo from the past.