No return to the roots, yet listenable album!

In theory it could be so in July 2012, an idea that will fail the great return to the roots of the fourth studio album by the Berlin group Seeed. 30 seconds, the first single, "Molotov" have since been enough to note that the change has been too popular music-oriented continued consistently.
For fans of the first hour that is of course a disappointment, but as long as the result is right, musicians may like to try something new. Ultimately, "Molotov" namely a decent catchy with clever lyrics and a danceable beat, which was rewarded with a placement in the German top 20.

Coinciding with "Molotov" and "Wonderful Life" was released, a cover version of hits by the British singer Black. Striking is above all the reggae elements, but also a slower, but more modern and powerful beat here. For the album, this song is very fundamental, because it shows that an attempt is made to please for as many. The mixture of "Wonderful Life" is very pleasant to listen to and makes it one of the best cover of this song.
"Beautiful", which represents the first and in an instrumental version of the album last piece ("Molotov" and "Wonderful Life" are in fact the very back), also proves to be the same as one of the highlights of the album. The chorus is fortunately not too poppy and thus not annoying, but the Bridge is a bomb! In addition, the beautiful lyrics and the successful exploitation.

It continues with "Your Time", which has an interesting chorus, but is overall a bit weaker than its predecessor. "Fell For You" has a leisurely but interesting beat and a more complex instrumentation. Exotic Beat and expensive instrumentation? Those were the ingredients for success Stadtaffe! In fact shows "Fell For You" a certain influence of Peter Fox's solo project and reached almost its perfection.
"Eye Bling" and "Waste My Time" reminiscent of the presentation strongly "thing" of the previous album, but do not reach by far the lyrical sophistication. In addition, the choruses are catchy too, which means that the songs can annoy quickly. Dance bar they are all, but ultimately also the first damper after really good album beginning. "Waste My Time" is in effect, but the better of the two.

Between the two is "You & I", which is the only (!) Pure reggae song of the album. It is questionable what's a marketing behind it, for which reggae fan buys because an album for just one song? Not only do the first two albums by Seeed have to offer more in this genre, no, they are also immensely better at it. Ultimately, "You & I" in the context a bit mediocre and seems a little lost on the album.

And then comes a big shock aka "SEEED's house"! Said title is in fact so electronically, with all the trimmings. It begins with a well-known and frequently used Beat and even ends in Stimmverzerrern. The result, however, is rather mixed and the lyrics are partly really bad rhyme. What "You & I" is also "SEEED's house" a little alone since, but is a good thing.
The dancehall track, "Elephants" one forgets after the hyped predecessor almost back, unfortunately, he is also a little unkind. "Lovelee" is, for that matter, even a little better. After all, the album with the beautiful "Wonderful", the (pleasant) massive "Molotov" and the reprise of "Beautiful" sounds very pleasant.

Overall, at SEEED's fourth album "Seeed" something for everyone with this, but that is exactly the Achilles heel because probably the fewest people all styles of most pleasing work of the Berlin guys are satisfied. Striking are especially the hangover somewhere in the middle of the album, and the fact that the best songs were published already as singles. From my album gets scarce 4 stars, it has at least a handful of really good songs and despite all the criticism luckily no total failure. The album consists of a little dancehall, reggae even less, but a lot of the modern. If that in combination have succeeded with most texts, suits well produced tracks and pleasant voices of the three lead singer who can buy this album without hesitation.