II (Moderat album)

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II
Moderat studio album

Publication
(s)

August 2, 2013

admission

2013

Label (s) Monkeytown Records

Genre (s)

Electronic music

running time

53:21

Single releases
12th of July 2013 Bad Kingdom
October 25, 2013 Gita
17th January 2014 Last time

II (sometimes also referred to as Moderat II ) is the second music album of the Berlin project Moderat , consisting of a mode selector and apparatus . It was released on Monkeytown Records on August 2, 2013 with support from Mute for distribution in the United States and Canada .

Creation and publication

In the years following the first Moderat album in 2009, Modeselektor and Apparat devoted themselves to their own careers. Apparat released his fourth album The Devil's Walk in 2011 and, two years later, War and Peace , the soundtrack for a theater adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy . Modeselektor founded their own label with Monkeytown Records and released their third studio album Monkeytown in 2011 .

At the turn of 2012/2013 work began on the new joint album, which was officially announced before it was completed at the end of January. In total, the musicians worked on II .

The album was released as a download, CD and record, as well as deluxe CD, deluxe double LP and limited colored double LP deluxe vinyl.

Support was II by an extensive tour of Europe, North America and other regions. As with the tour for the first album, the design collective pathfinding provides visual support in the form of videos and the arrangement of the stage show. In September 2013 the tour had to be interrupted by Apparat due to a motorcycle accident and concert dates had to be postponed.

The first single from the album Bad Kingdom was released on July 12th as a limited 10 "along with an instrumental version. The Pathfinders created a music video that is in a similar graphic style to the cover. The video was published by the music site Pitchfork , through publication on on July 31st, the band announced on their Facebook page that the album could be listened to as a preview on Spotify .

UNICEF used the second single Gita in a video in October for an initiative against domestic violence .

In January 2014 Moderat released the third single Last Time , which was only included on the deluxe CD edition, along with a video by Scouting and a remix by Jon Hopkins . That same month, II was released as a deluxe tour edition with an instrumental version of the album, music and interview videos, and remixes by Jon Hopkins, Robag Wruhme, and Anstam.

General

In contrast to the first album, which featured among others Busdriver , Paul St. Hilaire and Dellé von Seeed as guest musicians, II does not contain any collaborations.

As with the first album, the cover artwork comes from the graphic artist, musician and long-time friend of the band Siriusmo . Further artwork was created by scouting.

The album unites different styles of music and contains elements from classical techno , electronic pop music , IDM , ambient and dubstep / 2-step garage .

reception

On the Metacritic .com site, the album has a rating of 74 out of 100 points based on 30 reviews, which means an "essentially positive" rating.

Track list

  1. The Mark (Interlude) - 1:36
  2. Bad Kingdom - 4:22
  3. Versions - 5:10
  4. Let in the Light - 4:15
  5. Milk - 10:04
  6. Therapy - 5:45
  7. Gita - 4:22
  8. Clouded (Interlude) - 1:33
  9. Ilona - 5:03
  10. Damage Done - 5:26
  11. This Time - 5:45
  12. Last Time - 5:18 (only on the Deluxe CD Edition)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/news/49379-modeselektorapparat-supergroup-moderat-announce-new-album-moderat-ii/
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cxsYsqO_bI
  3. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/tv/youtube/13-music-videos/832-moderat-bad-kingdom-official-music-video/
  4. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/moderat.band/posts/10151748850257173
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  6. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/ii/moderat