Since City were back!

1997: the return of City from large music business. For the 25th band anniversary, 10 years after the advanced to a classic "Casablanca", they bring an excellent album out with modest title, which is also one of my favorites among the City Albums (after the successor "At Window 2" and of course " Casablanca "). It has (mostly) pretty much everything lacked "Do not be afraid" in many places of the predecessor: great lyrics, great melodies, catchiness.
This is achieved Puppel & Co. not without the help of some allusions to City classics, including "At the window" "Casablanca" and.
In "Tour d'amour" Gogow schrammelt semi-obsessed on the violin, in "Sehn addiction" sounds's then very gently. But even his violin comes here more often than average to sound, what the overall impression of the album characterizes decisively. It's dreamy, (almost) non-political, sometimes even folksy. Nevertheless, it begins very rocky.
I especially like the way "love and be loved." Calmly, thoughtfully, plus the violin singing of "the window" as a quote with built-in - just wonderful.
"Let me in your dreams" is the way of Emil Bogdanov, who was City Singers times and once the first shots of "the window" sang.
But it's honestly not all golden on this record: As nice as the title "Rose" also reads, he is not great (Quote: "Werf 'but the roses auf'n garbage"). "If I could as I wanted" is the only easy political title on the album and does not fit somehow so very purely. From the unmistakable Binge Drinking songs "Come and drink from" and not to mention the kind already witty "Seven Sons" once all.

Conclusion: A very nice CD which presents a not really new, but unique in its own way side of the band - for City Friends highly recommended.