Free (Arctic Circle 18 album)

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Free
Studio album from Arctic Circle 18

Publication
(s)

November 26, 2010

Label (s) Vertigo Be , Universal

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Synth pop

Title (number)

10

occupation
  • Guitar, piano: Philipp Makolis
  • Piano, guitar, trumpet : Ludwig Bauer
  • Drums : Christian Grochau
chronology
The Color of Snow (2008) Free -

Free is the fourth album by the Dresden band Polarkreis 18 and was released on November 26, 2010. It was started in response to the huge success of the third album, The Color of Snow, right after its release. However, Frei was unable to build on the commercial success of the previous album, it remained the band's last album.

background

The music was recorded together with the Babelsberg film orchestra, with classical elements being incorporated into the pop music. The content of the album is based on the song cycle ' Winterreise ' by Franz Schubert . on. The album is about a person who goes through the most important stages of their life, from birth to death.

Track list

  1. Free
  2. Infinite symphony
  3. All that I love
  4. Your love
  5. Evergreen
  6. Letting go
  7. Small space between
  8. Sleep Rocket
  9. Dark and Gray
  10. elegy

Reviews

The album was received rather negatively in the reviews. Among other things, Mischa Karth from éclat issued a damning verdict. The album was apparently produced to pull money out of people's pockets, it is not musically interesting. Since there are no catchy qualities and good songwriting compared to the previous album, the music is not even successful in the sense of pure pop music; the ride on the razor blade of the affected has gone very wrong . Alexandra Petrusch complained on Monstersandcritic.de that apparently “many of the tracks on the album are based on a blueprint of 'Alone'” and resemble “sticky catchy tunes à la Modern Talking”. The style is so “homogeneous and catchy” that the music moves in a “tiring endless loop”. Only the final title “Elegy” is praised as “reduced, poetic and spherical”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.yaez.de/20101130/Musik/569/59/Polarkeis-18-mektiven-sich-zurueck.html in yaez .de
  2. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/folk/musikundfilm/Winterreise-am-Polarkreis-18-article2021061.html
  3. ↑ http://www.eclat-mag.de/rezensions/polarkreis-18/frei.html Mischa Karth on eclat.
  4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20110512051805/http://www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/201047/article_184565.php/CD-Kritik-Frei-Pop-von-Polarkreis-18