Letters over the city

Letters over the city
Studio album by Tomte
Publication (s)	February 3, 2006
Label (s)	Grand Hotel van Cleef
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Indie pop , indie rock
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Thees Uhlmann Guitar: Dennis Becker Bass : Oliver Koch Guitar, keys : Max Martin Schröder Drums : Timo Bodenstein
Studio (s)	MOB Studios, Hamburg
chronology Behind All These Windows (2003) Letters over the city Eureka (2008)

Letters over the city is the fourth studio album by the Hamburg indie rock band Tomte .

It is the successor to the album Behind all these Windows and was released in February 2006 on the label Grand Hotel van Cleef . The album marked the band's national breakthrough and was their greatest success so far.

Reviews

Bine Jankowski from Laut.de gives full marks and writes about Uhlmann's texts: "His trains of thought seem more branched, reveal new angles when stepped on several times. Not to mention the many lines that want to be written more than ever on brickwork and pencil cases . "

In the review of Plattentests.de it is said: " Letters above the city is an album made of one piece, and that is also its strength. No unnecessary up-tempo songs, and Thees has also made progress vocally. So much so that he up to." in detail, right down to the phrasing, can now imitate both Gallaghers. "

successes

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Letters over the city   DE 4th 02/20/2006 (8 weeks)   AT 29 02/17/2006 (6 weeks)   CH 96 02/26/2006 (1 week)

Singles

I was singing about you all the time   DE 38 02/13/2006 (5 weeks)

The album is Tomte's most successful album to date, reaching number 4 in the German album charts. Entry into the Top 100 was also achieved in Austria and Switzerland. The single I sang from you all the time made it to number 38.

Letters above the city were also represented in the annual charts of various music magazines . The critics of the Intro voted it 37th and the Visions 46th place. In the reader charts it was even ranked 6th and 14th respectively, in the Musikexpress it was the tenth best music album of 2006, according to the readers' opinion, in the Spex the twelfth best music album.

I was singing about you the whole time , among other things, it was 15th in the intro's critics charts and 7th among the readers in Musikexpress and 16th in Visions. The single New York also achieved a position in the Visions readers' charts, it was enough for 25th place.

Track list

1. I was singing about you all the time , 4:22
2. This is how it should be , 03:32
3. What lights up the sky , 4:31 am
4. New York , 4:47 am
5. Walter & Gail , 4:57 am
6. North of the world , 4:18 am
7. Why I'm here , 4:20 am
8. On my shoulders , 3:24 am
9. You're right to laugh and we laugh too , 04:14
10. Violins at Wonderful World , 04:15

Single releases

• I sang about you all along (Jan 27, 2006, GHvC)

1. I sang about you all the time (Single Edit)
2. We asked your dealer
3. This is soccer
4. I sang about you all the time (video)

• North of the World (April 7, 2006, download)

1. North of the world
2. This is how it should be (live)
3. Violins at Wonderful World (live)

• New York (free download)

1. new York

Other contributors

• Trumpet : Sven Regener
• Cello : Hagen Kuhr, Hanno Kuhns
• Violin : Juliane Merse, Bruno Merse
• Singing: Alex Matthes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review on laut.de
2. ↑ Review on plattentests.de
3. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
4. ↑ Annual charts of various music magazines on indiepedia.de