Boundless (album)
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February 2, 2018 |
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8th |
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49:21 |
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Long Distance Calling & Vincent Sorg |
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Boundless ( . English : Unlimited ) is the sixth studio album of the German post-rock - / post-metal - band long distance calling . It was released on February 2, 2018 via InsideOut Music .
Emergence
Songwriting
In spring 2017 Long Distance Calling played a special tour on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of their debut album Satellite Bay , on which the band only played instrumental songs. Later that year, the band had to do without singer Petter Carlsen , who lives in Norway , at a festival . According to bass player Jan Hoffmann, the feeling on stage was very good for the musicians at these concerts and the band noticed that they wanted to play instrumental music. In addition, the musicians came to the conclusion that they didn't feel as comfortable with singing as they thought. Declining audience numbers at concerts and negative comments on social networks did the rest. The band then withdrew to their rehearsal room for several months and wrote the new songs during various jam sessions .
“Without having to worry about where the singing fits and what works and what doesn't. We just wanted to write the songs in the rehearsal room like we used to do in the past and put it into practice. It was a lot of fun and relaxed work. "
Guitarist Florian Füntmann added that it was more fun for the band to meet, jam and record the results instead of everyone recording something for themselves and sending the files back and forth. The musicians refrained from setting their own specifications for the album and describe Boundless as probably the purest LDC album of all time, as there are no guest musicians and no vocals. The band also took care of the electronic effects itself. At the same time, Boundless is also the hardest album in the band's history.
Recordings
Like the previous album, Trips , Boundless was produced by the band and Vincent Sorg , the latter being less involved in the songwriting than Trips and having less influence on the end result. According to Florian Füntmann, the band actually wanted to produce the entire album themselves, but then decided to work with Sorg again. According to Füntmann, Vincent Sorg was more of an executive producer and gave the musicians tips on arranging the songs and also took care of the samples and electronics. The drums were recorded in the Principal Studios in Senden , guitar and bass in the Sound Ranger Studio in Münster . The album was not recorded live, but the band strived for a more raw and direct sound than before. Vincent Sorg also did the mixing and mastering . The only guest musicians on Boundless were Eddie Northund and David Miles, who played the cello and trumpet respectively on the song Like a River .
publication
In addition to the regular CD version, a special edition CD was released, which contains the song Flashback as a bonus . In addition, the album will be released on LP on black, dark green and transparent mangenta vinyl. All LP versions also contain the song Flashback and the complete album on CD. For the song Out There one was music video rotated, the band when in one hiking in the Dolomites can see. The album cover was also created during this hike. The idea to shoot a video while hiking came from the drummer Janosch Rathmer . Another music video was shot in the studio while recording the song Ascending . In September 2018, a music video for the song Like a River was released .
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According to Jan Hoffmann, the album title Boundless has two meanings. On the one hand, it symbolizes the subject of travel , whereby for many fans of Long Distance Calling the albums are a kind of "travel in the head ". At the same time the band “swam free” with this album and made music “without limits or corsets”. The musicians “just did it instead of thinking too much about it”. The order of the eight songs on the album symbolizes the path of the musicians from below to the mountain top . The song Like a River pays homage to the Italian composer Ennio Morricone . In its original form, the song should represent a kind of calm in an album based on hardness
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Reviews
The German magazine Rock Hard named Boundless album of the month together with the album Down Below by the band Tribulation . For Tobias Blum, the "details and the richness of timbres with which Long Distance Calling elevate their now well-established style to true greatness are exciting". The band would "release one of their strongest albums (again) from the shackles of conventional songwriting". Blum rated the album with 8.5 out of ten points. According to Frank Thiessies from the German magazine Metal Hammer , Long Distance Callings "remains the greatest strength of the ability to keep the listener on the line even with the pieces being played for long periods of time and to be immediately accessible". The album would be "a great acoustic trip that can tell and evoke more than more classic rock band lineups with thousands of sung words". Thiessies awarded six out of seven points.
Chart placements
Boundless rose to number 24 in the German and number 22 in the Swiss album charts. For the first time, Long Distance Calling made it into the Austrian album charts, where Boundless was 65th.
Awards
The German magazine Visions had the music video for the song Out There on their list of the 20 best music videos of 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Katrin Riedl: Homesick and wanderlust . In: Metal Hammer , February 2018, page 42
- ↑ a b c Daniel Thomas: Back to the comfort zone . In: Visions , issue 299, page 64
- ↑ a b c d Alexander Santel: About recording in the country, tours in Japan and the first time ... Wacken. Metal.de, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Alexandra Michels: Long Distance Calling: "Boundless" album will be released in February. Rock Hard , accessed November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Long Distance Calling. GfK Entertainment, accessed on February 9, 2018 .
- ^ Long Distance Calling in the Swiss Hit Parade. Hung Medien, accessed February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Long Distance Calling in the Austrian charts. Hung Medien, accessed February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Tobias Blum: Long Distance Calling - Boundless . In: Rock Hard, February 2018, page 89
- ^ Frank Thiessies: Long Distance Calling - Boundless . In: Metal Hammer, February 2018, page 94
- ↑ Dennis Drögemüller: The 20 best music videos 2017. Visions, accessed on December 24, 2017 .
Web links
- Official website
- Boundless at Allmusic (English)