Sophie Hunger debut from 2008 is anything but monotonous; the album has some earcatcher in stock and harbors treasures that one discovers only gradually. Even some great surprise effects it has to offer - not only in the title track. All without airs, and without picking up in artificial fog. Time she sings quietly and carried a "My Funny Valentine" -Reminiszenz, accompanied only by his own guitar ("Beauty Above All"), then again offers her "Waltz for Nobody" through certain something with the musettes Charm, and "The Tourist "brettert going regardless of genre offered obstacles. The "Teenage Spirit" is exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds in wait like an old cat in front of mouse hole (and the mouse hole squats fascinates the listener); playful with classical piano sets "Rise and Fall" go and moved to a rap interlude on Schwyzerdüütsch a simple conclusion. Light as a feather, yet with traction begins the album ("Shape"), and its great closing track "House of Gods" is airy without lifting. And the furious "Sophie Hunger Blues" bursting sound and speech with wit and irony, inclusive Dylan Veräppelung. More of the sort! Unfortunately there's also a little musical mass-produced on the album - well, a debut album you can let go through that. In addition, the (few!), For example, well done somewhat arbitrary ears flattering song, "Round and Round" and will not be a nuisance. Even they suggest: Here's still room for improvement, but this air is certainly not out of reach for Sophie Hunger. What is true for Sophie Hunger, also applies to their band, specifically for each member of the band as well as for all the: Here are rounder at work, who have learned their musical craft and also know what you can therefore do anything without that would ever have one of them in the wrong place vorgedrängelt.
Back to Sophie Hunger, because the songs we hear here, and also dominated her voice the album. Still so'n voting tremendous Fräuleinwunder? No, not - Sophie Hunger is something special. Actually, she sings with unspectacular voice, but how it treats these unspectacular voice that makes the difference: Most of them seem delicate without being fragile - and then there's these moments where they can rein her voice loose. She sings rather slow, then acting's unsentimental melancholy, but when they switched up a gear, they articulated their text so precise that you can barely keep up at first hearing. Regardless of whether they are (in "House of Gods") sings a verse English, German or Swiss German and / or raps. In the fast lane is closing with the musical melancholy; Irony and anger have run wild - the music, of course. In musical drawers she does not fit; times it combines Punk with World Music and Folk, then it shows how good can harmonize classic clocks and Rap. The complete register between turns up at the right moment, French chanson, bebop, folk, Hillbilly, Swiss Alps Music, Blues, musette, jazz, Undwasnochalles, sometimes in adventurous-sounding combination, but: It fits. It fits because Sophie Hunger begs no effects, but because they - making music. Really good melodic music without airs and graces.
