Island (album)
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2014 |
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CD, LP |
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Rock / pop |
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12 |
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Salon Annemarie, Berlin |
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Insel is the fourth studio album from July . It was released on October 3, 2014.
History of origin
After the last concerts of the previous album In Love , the band withdrew almost completely from the public for more than two years, as they did in 2008/09. According to the band members, work on a fourth album began at this time, around the beginning of 2012. In contrast to its predecessor, electronic elements were largely dispensed with this time. Since almost all band members had moved to Berlin in the meantime and some of them had set up their own recording studios there, this allowed them to organize their time more freely than before.
In the summer of 2013, the band went on a houseboat trip together on the Mecklenburg Lake District , where they played music together and also recorded the album artwork and the music video for the first single Insel .
Track list
- Insel (Music / Text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- When everything moves (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- Waterfall (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- Need nothing (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- One day (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- Hallo Hallo (Music: Eva Briegel, Marcel Römer; Text: Eva Briegel)
- Now (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- 2004 (Music / Text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- It's not much (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Jonas Schubert, Simon Triebel)
- Plattenbau (music / text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- When that's all (Music / Text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
- As tight as I can (Music / Text: Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing, Simon Triebel)
Publications and chart successes
Like the second album Ein neue Tag in 2006, Insel was also released on LP in addition to the CD and download versions . An edition of 500 copies was signed by the band members for Amazon .
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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10 (4 weeks) | 4th |
 Austria (Ö3)
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66 (1 week) | 1 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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73 (2 weeks) | 2 |
No physical singles were released from the Insel album . The title song Insel was released on September 12, 2014 as a download single and reached number 74 in the German charts. In the weeks that followed until the album was released, one track was made available as a download in advance: on September 19th now and on September 26th one day .
Reviews
Kristina Bischoff from NDR2 praised “the balance between up-tempo wake-ups and songs that offer attentive listening” , but stated that the album as a whole remained “a bit monotonous and dreary” .
Felix Reek said in the section record cabinet of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : "Your new album" Insel "is the return to the melancholy pop of the beginning with this fragile voice that still sounds more like the student girl than the new Berliner. [...] Musically it reminds me of the euphoric of Coldplay and then of the lively one of Frida Gold. "
Kai Butterweck wrote for laut.de that the band Juli stands "on their own island: with largely clichéd texts and sound symbioses of pop, electro and rock arranged with great attention to detail - combined into a homogeneous whole."
Marius Meyer from alternativmusik.de stated: “The 12 pieces on the album mesh perfectly and the album is a logical continuation of the previous work of July. [...] Perhaps the most rounded work of the band to date and one with which they ensure that their journey is far from over. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ingrid Mosblech-Kaltwasser: Interview with JULI. der-kultur-blog.de, September 21, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ↑ a b "July" in October: "Insel" is the fourth studio album by the former Giessener. (No longer available online.) Gießener Anzeiger, October 1, 2014, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ a b Kristina Arens: "It's about the value of the moment ..." 1st-blue, September 2, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ↑ July. officialcharts.de, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ July. austriancharts.at, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ July. hitparade.ch, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ July Island. Official German charts, accessed June 29, 2016 .
- ↑ The July album “Insel” is coming up soon - listen now and pre-order. Universal Music, September 18, 2014, accessed June 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Kristina Bischoff: Four years of longing. NDR2, October 8, 2014, archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ^ Felix Reek: July Island. sueddeutsche.de, October 6, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Kai Butterweck: Between longing radio pop and indie sounds. laut.de, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ^ Marius Meyer: July island. (No longer available online.) Alternativmusik.de, October 17, 2014, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2015 . 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.
