Maybebop now published the 13th album in the current line, it is also the 11th studio album. As usual, you will encounter perfect singing, excellent arrangements and quirky good, serious and profound lyrics. I especially like that bass Sebastian Schröder, unlike the previous albums has 3 solos on the CD. By contrast has baritone Oliver Gies for my taste one too little, which is why I liked the previously published only on DVD number "how I am" on CD. Overall, the album but even with 13 songs is "Finally authentic" compared to albums like or "Always there for you" turned out very shortly. Especially a song is just the Popmix an already existing on the disk songs and this also does not make grade better. The production is always as high, but I imagine in some songs the question of how they are implemented live. However Maybebop surprised me in the ways many times. The rating each song: - It was a good thing: the last album Maybebop had with "At the moment everything is correct" a perfect opener to the CD. In this panel, you can not say that. The music is unfortunately very predictable in terms of text for Maybebopverhältnisse extremely schlageresk and is strongly reminiscent of Wolfgang Petry. And that's almost a death sentence for a Maybebop song in my eyes. In addition to the band perform the song requires a Loop Station, which I find a little cheap. After all, they have brought very different songs with only four votes on stage. 1.5 / 5 stars - Theory and Practice: The song comes from foreign, but fits in my opinion well Maybebop. Tenor Lukas Teske does a good job as a recitalist, 4/5 stars - My phone knows it: in my opinion a typical Maybebop song in the style of Seed. Sebastian Schröder copes here his first lead vocal on the album with flying colors, the text is witty, the music genius. 5/5 stars - German song: here Maybebop a masterpiece succeeded again. On the German national anthem they have here a brilliant text on the relationship of the average German to his country. Rhymed humorous and genial, nice arrangement. 5/5 stars - Do not I: in this song Maybebop shows once again how well they have mastered it to criticize social contradictions and absurdities, without becoming directly. In this case, people are being targeted who are afraid to do anything at the first step, which is why they desire that others do. The whole is converted into a light, dance music. 5/5 stars - Fear of death: Sebastian Schröder 2nd solo on the album is treated a bulky issue, all in a mix of Gregorian chant and rock, difficult but ingenious: 5/5 stars - Sex in marriage: one of my musical favorites of the album, calling for more sex a no longer young married couple and parents 5/5 stars - I'll see you: A beautiful, homophones love song. Maybebop rarely write such songs, but they are simply unbeatable and not at all cheesy: 5/5 stars - That must not: Olli's second solo sings all the things that you are not allowed, or at least thinks not allowed. Musically the piece is somewhat reminiscent of the song Panzer Fahrn from the album "Extremely close to it", though the content is not so bizarre: 4/5 stars - Such is life on earth: beautiful ballad, again a foreign composition that makes also good on the album. Lukas Teske is again perfect for vocals: 5/5 stars - Booked curse: Musically there's nothing on the number suspend, the text unfortunately. Booked the extremely flat puns curse, you could have put the once, or meinentwegen 2-3. Unfortunately, he runs through all the song's what makes the song a bit silly (Fuch guns, port curse opponents): 3/5 stars - Fortress: The third solo of Sebastian, and in my opinion the best. Here below the voluminous deep bass through its abandoned fortress and remembers glorious times when the fortress was proud and exalted, all in a medieval-inspired style, goosebumps: 5/5 stars (or more) - I see you (Popmix): in my view unnecessary. It gives the song is nothing new to it and destroyed my view the great homophonic 4-voice arrangement, since it is simply backed only by drums and other voices. 0/5 stars - Do it tomorrow (Bonus Track): unfortunately only available on iTunes, but ingenious number, musically and lyrically slightly pretty nasty: 5/5 stars - Culture of excess (Bonus Track): also only on Itunes, also the hammer, some beautiful polyphonic and with changing main votes: 5/5 stars
Conclusion: It is again a solid album been delivered, with a few minor interruptions ("It was a good thing", "booked curse"). Unfortunately there is a tendency as the previous album to realize that trying to address the mass market. That would be no real problem because Maybebop have demonstrated on the last album that they can write mass-songs without losing quality ("At the moment everything is correct"). Also I find the deportation of two songs from the CD on Itunes shame because in my opinion they are one of the best songs. Therefore, rather recommends a buy on iTunes, because you get all the songs.
