Whoever the new songs has consulted on the album without too much expectations and without acute mania Lena, will agree with the tenor of the serious critiques and reviews here: Nett, mediocre, not to say unimportant. Especially with regard to the production as such. Lena does not mesh with the scheme of such sterile studio production. Lena also not transformed into a Stefanie Heinzmann, with all due respect for the vocal performance of the latter.
Stefan Raab and his production team, it is not apparently been able to take the goblins and elves a "enchanting" USFO-Lena with in the studio. Why did they not put her with a live band inside? Too expensive? No Time? The attentive observer and listener of the live performances by Lena it is noticed that the "total package Lena" is also largely shaped by a mitgestaltenden band of flesh and blood with which they skillfully and intuitively, almost symbiotically to terms. Anyway I wish her own band, as I'm also the Heavytones.
A very customized product for an artist whose maladjustment and uniqueness was just certified by the conveyor Stefan Raab. Too bad. I'd rather have waited a few more months, so it is really good. But now, in the "peak of inflated expectations" of a hype cycle (s. Wikipedia), the product the money is best placed on the market, the next hype phase, the "valley of disappointment," is already in sight, then already earned. Luckily there after the hype and after her appearance in Oslo the chance to reach the "plateau of productivity". Lena is very smart and talented, they will use them.
Conclusion: too sterile, playback too artificial, singing well and with feeling, but not powerful. Production just does not do justice lena.
A must-have for Lena fans and all those who particularly like her voice, otherwise a bargain, but not for the CD collection Musikbessener.
