Hooray! Hooray! Not like that.
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April 23, 2010 |
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Hooray! Hooray! Not like that. is the second studio album by the German singer and guitarist Gisbert zu Knyphausen . The album was released by PIAS in April 2010 .
Creation and publication
Due to the success of his debut album Gisbert zu Knyphausen , published in 2008, Gisbert zu Knyphausen became known to a larger audience. In an interview, zu Knyphausen said that while working on his second album he felt a certain pressure of expectation, but was finally able to deal with it. The specialist press also followed the artist's career. Rolling Stone magazine published a live recording and accompanied the creation process of the successor Hurray! Hooray! Not like that.
On songwriting for hurray! Hooray! Not like that. The band was also involved for the first time, and has played unchanged with Gisbert zu Knyphausen since the first album. The album was recorded and produced by Tobias Levin , who had worked with Tocotronic and Kante , among others . After the first test recordings took place in January 2009, Hurray! Hooray! Not like that. recorded in October and November of the same year in the Electric Avenue Studios in Hamburg.
In the run-up to its publication, zu Knyphausen received a lot of media attention and its press days were fully booked. Among other things, the ARD and the Hamburger Abendblatt reported .
On April 23, 2010, the day of its release, zu Knyphausen presented the album together with his band at the Babylon cinema in Berlin. The event was sold out weeks in advance. The concert was recorded by Radio Eins and broadcast on the same day. Two similar events in Hamburg and Cologne were also sold out.
Track list
- "Hey" - 3:05
- "Strange Light" - 5:34
- "Gray, gray, gray" - 4:16
- “It's quiet at the Krachgarten rest area” - 2:59
- "I'm a fan of clichés and twinkling stars" - 4:25
- "Cranes" - 4:09
- "Rotten wood" - 5:05
- "Melancholy" - 2:17
- "Hooray! Hooray! Not like that. ”- 3:29
- “Don't turn around” - 2:35
- “Nothing but Ghosts” - 6:18
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Hooray! Hooray! Not like that. was received extremely positively by the critics.
Rolling Stone magazine awarded four and a half stars out of five. Arne Willander wrote in his review that for a long time no one had heard “such magical songwriting art” and called Knyphausen a “master of melancholy”. Hooray! Hooray! Not like that. differs from other songwriter records on the one hand by the "open chords [...], the jazz, the pleading [in the music]", on the other hand by the "mixture of everyday language and delirious lyrics". In addition, Willander praised producer Tobis Levin for producing the album "wonderfully organically". In May 2010 the editors of the magazine voted Hurra! Hooray! Not like that. at number 1 in the critics' charts.
The online magazine Laut.de gave the album four out of five possible points and wrote that Gisbert zu Knyphausen may not be a “great vocalist”, but that he knew how to “touch in a strangely peculiar way.” Hurray! Hooray! Not like that. are characterized by a mixture of melancholy and urgency . In his texts, Zu Knyphausen finds "time and again [...] images of great charisma". Also the part of the band should not be underestimated, the musicians supported the singer in a "congenial" way.
Falk Sinß wrote for ARD , Hurray! Hooray! Not like that. Compared to its predecessor Gisbert zu Knyphausen , the arrangement is "more refined and sophisticated, the sound thicker and darker." The melancholy remains the same, but without "sounding desperate or depressed."
The Berlin Tagesspiegel said, Hurray! Hooray! Not like that. is "maybe even a little better" than its predecessor. Overall, influences from Sven Regener could be identified, especially “Morsches Holz” is reminiscent of Element of Crime . Other critics also drew this comparison.
Hooray! Hooray! Not like that. entered the German album charts at number 12 , making it the first Gisbert zu Knyphausen release to make it into the charts . In the newcomer charts determined by Media Control , the album even reached first place.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Falk Sinß: "I am not a particularly disciplined person" ( Memento from July 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Gisbert zu Knyphausen, published on the ARD homepage on April 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d Torsten Groß, Gunther Reinhardt: One year, things are moving forward. Published in May 2010 in Rolling Stone , Issue 187, pp. 72f.
- ↑ a b c d Birgit Reuther: Gisbert zu Knyphausen - the modest starter Published on April 20, 2010 in the Hamburger Abendblatt .
- ^ Babylon Berlin: April 2010 program ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on May 12, 2010.
- ↑ a b HP Daniels: Gisbert zu Knyphausen in the Babylon Kino Published on April 24, 2010 in the Tagesspiegel .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: Charts DE Charts CH
- ↑ Arne Willander: Hurray! Hooray! Not like that. Published May 2010 in Rolling Stone , Issue 187, p. 108
- ↑ Author Charts in Rolling Stone Issue 187 (May 2010), p. 130
- ↑ a b Matthias von Viereck: Nobody can avoid this word poet. Criticism at Laut.de , accessed on May 12, 2010.
- ↑ a b Falk Sinß: Gisbert zu Knyphausen: "Hurray! Hurray! Not like that!" ( Memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Published on the ARD website on April 25, 2010.
- ↑ Media Control : Gisbert zu Knyphausen most successful newcomer of the week ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from May 5, 2010. Accessed on May 12, 2010.