First of all: Who looks to the plate 13 beat-heavy songs with "feel-good tunes" will be disappointed.
"Carton" is through and through a pop-plate. Here's a piano, there a couple of acoustic guitars, a string used ohoho - all sounds nicely rounded and consistent. In addition, the plate run through sometimes quite gefühlsduselige Lyrics. "You creaks to like me 'ne nut, break the shell on [...] You let out the air, like' nem Balloon" emphasizes Mark Forster not necessarily to the level of the great German singer songwriter. But that's perfectly fine.
The low point is the drive in, in my opinion, failed cover of "She's gone". With a lot of good will but also find quite a few very listenable songs: his (Far away) To you, the little things, Glad downhill, you and me.
After the first one or two passes of the plate, I am sorry to say that the debut album Mark Forster's not completely convinced me. The best song was also the debut single. Certainly not a bad record, but not with a large perennial potential.
3.5 of 5 stars)
