The equally bulky as profound single "Everything" announced already that you have to prepare themselves for this CD on a lot. That here a level has been reached, where one has to hear at times perhaps only beautiful before more can love it more. For we are heroes now sound very different. Gone are the former synthesizers, the new songs come instead eg accordion, banjo or Cajuns therefore. With this completely new arrangements we are heroes almost any snot of time lost, but get a lot more mature.
The lyrics are different than they were then: From social criticism is on this album no trace, instead, it is about life, home and love as such, the meaning behind it and to transience. Of course, now sounds immensely pregnant with meaning and depressed, and definitely the album also has such moments, but it is broken up by a lot of boisterous merriment and gentle joke again.
Nevertheless, the strongest moments of the album are in the quieter songs:
"Take me home" stands not only for this album, but in the complete works of We are out heroes. This yearning ballad about finding salvation and inner peace brings just too much to the point, saying too much from the soul, as that would be passing on this song. A serious contender for the best Wir sind Helden title of all time - and for me the hope that the band might finally should first decoupling a ballad as a single.
"My friend was in a coma, and the only thing she brought me was this lousy T-shirt" is a pure piano ballad about the transience of life, it is extremely to the kidneys and is certainly the most intense tracks that we are have been placed on the market heroes.
Behind these two big songs the other two ballads lagging perhaps for a bit.
"The Ballad of Wolfgang and Brigitte" is the only title of the album, which makes use of classic storytelling, very melancholy, he tells about the search for love and not finding. The images, which are caused by the narrative about to leave the emptiness of loneliness appear to be particularly intense, and that is certainly a matter of taste, because it is precisely concerned must want to get involved in this sadness even once.
"Nothing we can do", the last track of the CD, rounds with his thoughts of self-resting Although the album perfectly, remains in the overall impression but rather inconspicuous.
Fortunately, the album as a whole is not only wistfully, because the faster songs remain in the majority. Displays already "What we heard two" by an arrangement that is strongly reminiscent of gypsy folk, how much the heroes-sound has changed, this is "23:55 The Starter Wife" yet perfected by the catchy tune, with the text "You call it Weltschmerz, I call it putting attitude "the heroes a statement of optimism.
Generally, there are songs like the music quite strenuous "playwright" and "other people's dreams", showing that Judith Holofernes has not forgotten how to juggle just in rhythm stressed titles with profundity and wit - a quality that so far by all Albums continuously attracts. And lucky strike as "The Defiant Ones" and "circles", you can sing along to a single hearing immediately, but remain at a high level textual and would further good single contender.
"In the Eye of the Storm" recalls from the title one or two perhaps Waggershausens "In the eye of the typhoon". The symbol of absolute silence, around which everything collapses is, but here very different spun. Is it textually to stop in difficult times, then this song whipped on and on, until it finally explodes in his own applause.
In cross section, "Take me home" is likely to remain the best tracks on the album, big favorite for me but also "23:55 The Starter Wife", "My girlfriend was in a coma ..." and "In the Eye of the Storm" , I can less make friends for purely subjective reasons only with "The Ballad of Wolfgang and Brigitte" and "playwright".
The bottom line is we can say once again that we are playing heroes in a league all its own. Both lyrically and musically can currently perhaps keep Tele in Germany. It just so happens, Tele-bassist Jörg Holdinghausen been rented for some time to the heroes, to look at the whole newly installed instruments.
Even more can be heard this album and is sure how well received the previous works, an important place in the "Soundtrack of my life". And since the whole album also as unplugged version back dranhängt (very well suited to be acting more on the lyrics), it also has a great price-performance ratio.
