Appeals in harmony

"We have noticed that it has become a trilogy" was the verdict Jan Müller in a survey on the present album, which suggests as a result of development than any other self-reflection and satisfaction. Trilogy or not: "Schall & Wahn" is a Tocotronic album become at a high level, which plays with harmony and Pop, but by no means deprived of appeals and demands!

The melancholy "Your love is killing me," acts as a response to a previously started dialogue: gentle, long and honest. The invitation is literally carried on by mountain heights, in order to clarify that the torture never ends, "even if you tell us about binds": presented as a hopeful and guitar Popper. Whereas strings the handset when heavy greet "The blood on my hands," to turn "Do not even" over perform for striking-drying, the conciliatory debunked by his text as a foreign word.
"Please oscillate" sounds as an ironic reply to Schiller's Marquis de Posa, freedom of thought propagated and is still delivered. Contrastive and orchestrated as a desire Lowtzow supplies in "Question of the doubt" his interpretation of the song, including migrant workers guitar. The rock of "No more masterpieces", "storm the castle" and "Song of the tyrants" thus appears as a logical consequence of the view through a red-colored glasses. The large end finally delivers "poison", the infinite radiates much pathos in his sprawling violin sounds and feedback.

Without überspuhlte encodings "Schall & Wahn" has become a great record, which should get an immovable top spot in the music collection. The colorful spring flowers on the CD cover skillfully leads astray: This is about aesthetics, but rather about the Subtle and enigmatic, which is why I forgive full five stars!