That is finite. After three years a studio album of Placebo. After Scrapbook "Once More With Feeling", on the "only" two new songs were played, so in March 2006 is now before an album with 13 freshly baked titles. What can I tell you where I heard the board now more than a dozen times? Fortunately, it is really very well done. Mr. Molko strums again clearly like his guitar. After the rather electronic experiment "Black Market Music" and the sometimes jazzy "Sleeping With Ghosts" Placebo are hereby a piece back to its roots "placebo" and the undisputed masterpiece "With you I'm nothing," one of the best Alber - perhaps even Gegan DEM-90s of the last millennium. But what makes this album? Now, the issues have become more mature. That's what I like about placebo: they have never ceased to come to terms with their origins. The lyrics are about loneliness, too much sex and destroyed child dreams. Yet the band is never depressed, neither in terms of their music still in their texts. Rather melancholy: they invite in place of dreaming, away from noisy and hectic everyday life. A small oasis of innocence. The opener "Meds" [with the wonderful voice of Allison Mosshart: when a lady ever erotic air sucked as this before her hauntingly beautiful "? Baby, did you forget to take your meds]. Is fast and beautiful reminds me strongly of" Bulletproof cupid ", with lyrics and vocals. The next four songs of "Infra-red" to "Follow The Cops" have I also liked very much. Beautiful melody passages and profound. Now comes the part of the work, which I did not like so well: "Post Blue", "Because I Want You" and "Blind" sound to me partly to wood [maybe I have the album simply hear a few more times to to discover the quality of these songs] and slightly plump. Too bad, they inhibit the listening pleasure of the album really. To end giving placebo once gas: "Pierrot the clown", "One of a kind" and "In the cold light of morning" round the album off nicely. While "Broken Promise" with Michael Stipe of REM has a lot of potential, but also presented a lot of it. Too Bad. So five stars because it just create placebo repeatedly to put together out of their fundus new packages, which nevertheless never spitting same: I always discover something new, often only after repeated listening from. That's the great thing about this band: they are simply not old and bony!
