Behind all these windows

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Behind all these windows
Studio album by Tomte

Publication
(s)

April 28, 2003

Label (s) Grand Hotel van Cleef

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Indie pop , indie rock

occupation

production

Swen Meyer and Tomte

Studio (s)

MOB Studios, Hamburg

chronology
A Sunny Night
(2000) 		Behind all these windows Letters over the City
(2006)

Behind all these windows is the third studio album by the Hamburg indie rock band Tomte .

It is the follow-up to the album Eine Sonnige Nacht and was released in April 2003 on the Grand Hotel van Cleef label . The album brought the band for the first time more public attention.

Reviews

The overwhelming majority of the reviews rated the album positively, sometimes euphorically.

So called Spiegel Online album about as the "far greatest and most certain German-language LP" and on the pages of the intro states "Tomte is behind all this windows succeeded the album that we had much to wait too long, a revelation. " And further: "Worker's prose has never sounded more stunning, never has such a deep longing for love and closeness been formulated more pleasantly than with Uhlmann's beer romance."

In particular, the musical and textual development compared to the previous album was praised. On laut.de you can read: "[Tomte] deals extensively with the process of getting older [...] and now also takes care that the strings are correctly tuned." Sound spy judges: "Once more the most beautiful songs, once more the great lyrics [...]"

Udo Bölz raves about indigo.de : "The album is hit after hit after hit." and "Never before has a band been so close to what hurts. To what doesn't let you sleep at night."

Thees Uhlmann's singing and the exaggerated melancholy in the lyrics are occasionally criticized . Armin Linder from plattentests.de compares Uhlmann's voice at one point on the album with the "[howling of a] wounded street dog" and feels the lyrics are "close to the pain limit", but still gives 8 out of 10 points for the album. In a later review of the follow-up album, Letters over the City , he even describes the rating as "one of the few inglorious cases where we later got annoyed that we refused the highest rating for the album on Plattentests.de".

successes

With position 50 in the German album charts, the first chart entry succeeded with Behind All These Windows .

In the Spex reader charts for 2003 , Behind All These Windows is number 1 in the album charts, the critics put it in fifth place. For the critics of the Musikexpress , the album is the sixth best of the year, for the readers even the second best. Tomte also achieved positions in the top ten in the reader and critic charts of Intro , Rolling Stone and Visions magazines .

The video for the single Screams my mother's name rotates regularly on the relevant music channels and the song is the fourth and sixth most popular single of the year in the intro and the spex. Philipp Schiedel from laut.de even describes the song as "one of the best three songs [Uhlmanns]" and sums it up: "A track that contains everything that defines German indie rock: the melancholy in headbanging and the fun despite the shitty world. "

The songs The Bastards Who Will Bring You Home Now and The Beauty of Chance can also be found in the top 50 of various music magazines. The latter is still one of the band's most popular songs today. Especially the closing lines of the song, which u. a. are: "It's not the sun that goes down, but the earth that turns", a variation of a quote from the band Flaming Lips , is very popular with fans of the band.

In the ranking of the 25 best German-language pop albums of the Musikexpress from 2003, Behind all these windows came in 23rd. In 2005, Visions selected the 150 records for eternity and placed the album in 64th place.

Track list

  1. Forever the people , 4:20 am
  2. Screaming my mother's name , 4:19 am
  3. The bastards that bring you home now , 5:01 am
  4. You ran all the way , 04:15
  5. Finally , 05:12
  6. The other day when I thought 4:57
  7. Scalded by God , 5:17 am
  8. Insecuritate , 04:29
  9. That was me , 3:23 am
  10. The beauty of the chance , 4:47 am

Single releases

  • Screams my mother's name
  1. Screaming my mother's name (Radio Edit)
  2. Screams my mother's name (acoustic)
  3. Wilhelm, that was nothing (acoustics)
  4. Screaming my mother's name (album version)
  • The bastards who are bringing you home now
  1. The Bastards That Bring You Home Now (Radio Edit)
  2. A sunny night
  3. Plow
  4. The Bastards That Bring You Home Now (Album Edit)

The original songs Wilhelm, daswas nothing and Eine Sonnige Nacht can be found on the album Eine Sonnige Nacht . The title Pflügen comes from the album You know what I mean .

Other contributors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listened to the review on spiegel.de
  2. ↑ Tomte - Behind all these windows  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Review on intro.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intro.de  
  3. ↑ a b For the German Coldplay amateurism is now over review on laut.de.
  4. ↑ Dance music, sad and beautiful review on tonspion.de
  5. ↑ Behind all these windows review on indigo.de
  6. ↑ In this distant sham review on plattentests.de
  7. ↑ What moves the world Review on plattentests.de
  8. ↑ Article on indiepedia.de