1983 (album)
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September and December 2009 |
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14th |
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42:24 |
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Sophie Hunger with Stéphane Briat |
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1983 is the third studio album by Swiss singer , guitarist and pianist Sophie Hunger . The album was released on March 26, 2010 in Switzerland on Two Gentlemen Records and went straight to number 1 in the charts.
Emergence
After the surprise success of her studio debut Monday's Ghost , which went platinum in Switzerland , Sophie Hunger began working on her second album in Paris in summer 2009 . Together with Michael Flury and Christian Prader, who belong to their backing band, Hunger developed the new songs.
In 1983 she produced it herself, co-producer was the sound engineer Stéphane Briat , who had already worked with Air and Phoenix .
The title of the album is the year the singer was born. The 1983 cover shows Sophie Hunger in a pose that is based on the self-portrait “You or I” by the painter Maria Lassnig , in which the artist “holds a pistol to her temple and aims a second at the viewer”. Hunger indicates the pistols with their hands.
The album is also preceded by a dedication: "Dedicated to the children of Switzerland, may you grow up to participate."
Track list
- Leave Me with the Monkeys - 2:58
- Lovesong to Everyone - 3:12
- 1983 - 3:05
- Headlights - 3:10
- Citylights Forever - 3:28
- Your Personal Religion - 4:40
- Le vent nous portera (text: Bertrand Cantat , music: Noir Désir ) - 3:49
- Travelogue - 2:43
- Breaking the Waves - 2:42
- D´Red - 3:15
- Approximately Gone - 1:35
- Invisible - 2:34
- Broken English - 2:38
- Train People - 2:35
While most of the titles have an English text, there is also a German (“1983”), a Swiss-German (“D`Red”) and a French (“Le vent nous portera”) song. The latter is a cover version , the original comes from the rock band Noir Désir , which released the piece in 2001.
subjects
In an interview, Sophie Hunger said that she had covered a wider range of topics compared to her first publications in 1983 . In addition, she no longer only referred to herself, but “turned outward”. Critics spoke of a “broken relationship to the present”, while Hunger himself stated that there was “something aggressive in the album”.
The title song "1983" was seen as an example of this. In it, hunger accuses her generation of a lack of community spirit and forlornness, and she also criticizes the lack of interest in environmental protection . In “Your Personal Religion” she also criticizes society and takes up the catchphrase of “personal religion”, in which she sees “a contradiction in terms” that amounts to “justifying egoism”.
A clear self-reference, however, can be seen in “Invisible”. In this song, Hunger deals with the media , which in their eyes turns everything into a show . As concrete examples she names Barack Obama , Jesus , but also herself . “Broken English” is even more closely related to Sophie Hunger, here the singer describes the challenge of writing songs in a foreign language .
reception
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1983 was positively received by critics.
Timo Richard, who reviewed the album for Motor.de , wrote that the album was "entertaining and varied". In contrast to "the folk-pop fragility of previous albums", Hunger presents itself confidently and loudly. Together with producer Stéphane Briat, she “gave every song its own, reduced garb,” the album would benefit from the fact that hunger was no longer so much in the foreground.
Andreas Bättig wrote for Laut.de that 1983 was "sometimes jazzy, [...] sometimes smooth poppy". Especially with the Swiss German title D'Red you get very close to hunger.
While it entered the charts at number 1 in Switzerland in 1983 , the album was in the lower midfield in Germany, Austria and France.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Chart placements: DE AT CH
- ↑ a b c Timo Richard: Sophie Hunger: 1983 . ( Memento from May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Review for motor.de ; Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d e f Ueli Bernays: Ich und du. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , No. 71, March 26, 2010, p. 51.
- ↑ a b c d e Rabea Weihser: Sophie Hunger: The carefree . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/2010
- ↑ Brigitte Kleine: Review: Sophie's voice - the new export hit from Switzerland . ( Memento from April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Contribution from ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente , August 30, 2009.
- ↑ Sophie Hunger 1983 Product Info. In: sommerblut.net. Summer blood cultural festival website , accessed on July 3, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d Andreas Bättig: Fine and defiant - the Swiss woman hits the heart . Review for Laut.de ; Retrieved May 17, 2010.
- ^ " Dedicated to the children of Switzerland, may you grow up to take a part. ”
- ↑ "Obama - Showbiz, Jesus - Showbiz [...] Sophie Hunger - Showbiz"