Nothing is new

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Nothing is new
Studio album by Love A

Publication
(s)

May 12, 2017

Label (s) Rookie Records

Format (s)

CD, LP, download

Genre (s)

Post punk

Title (number)

12

running time

41:22

occupation
  • Singing: Jörkk Mechenbier
  • Guitar: Stefan Weyer
  • E-bass: Dominik Mercier
  • Drums: Karl Brausch

production

Robert Whiteley and Love A

Studio (s)

MOS Studio, Bitburg and Bobo Club Studio, Trier

chronology
Hunt and Dog
(2015) 		Nothing is new -

Nothing is new is the fourth studio album of the German post-punk band Love A . It was released on May 12, 2017 on the independent label Rookie Records . It marks the first chart position for the band. It reached number 36 in the German album charts .

History of origin

Love A recorded the album in the MOS Studio, Bitburg , and in the Bobo Club Studio in Trier. The production was done together with the band Robert Whiteley, who actually owns the Whitewood Studio in Liverpool with Daniel Woodward , where the mix was created. Robin Schmidt took care of the mastering. The artwork comes from guitarist Stefan Weyer. As with the previous album Jagd und Hund (2015), the music that was recorded by the band was created first. Then Jörkk Mechenbier wrote the lyrics. The great spatial distance between the band members who live in Hamburg, Trier and Cologne made this method indispensable.

publication

The album was released on May 12, 2017 as CD, LP and download. As with the three previous albums, the album was released via Rookie Records . A limited LP version was released on Finest Vinyl and contained the 7 "single Too Doof to Love Yourself , which consists of the two cover versions Too Doof too Fuck , originally by Pascow , and Love Yourself , originally by Justin Bieber .

Track list

  1. Nothing is easy - 3:57
  2. Neighbors II - 4:41
  3. It was clear - 2:45
  4. The others - 3:34
  5. Weeds - 3:47
  6. Treeps - 2:42
  7. Nerd - 3:02
  8. Dandelion - 3:27
  9. Edges - 3:16
  10. Monaco - 3:30
  11. Neither - 3:22
  12. Lose - 3:19

Single Too Doof To Love Yourself

  1. Too Doof Too Fuck
  2. Love yourself

Video decoupling

The first music video for the quasi-title track Nothing is Easy was released on February 9, 2017 on Love A's YouTube channel. It was shot by Michael Winkler and shows a 13-year-old boy mushing in the snow. On April 28, 2017, the second video for the album was released with The Others . The main actor is Claus Luer, the singer from Chefdenker and formerly the bone factory . It shows him dancing in a disco in a 1980s look.

Music genre

Musically, the album represents a consistent further development of the band's own postpunk sound. Despite the repetitive title, the new wave elements have been increased significantly, and the production has also become more mature. The singing is “bulky and powerful, always just before tipping into the scream.” The lyrics are, as with the previous albums, clauses and often open to interpretation. Mechenbier tries to underpin them emotionally, however, whereby they arise from a kind of brut rather than within a songwriting process. They move between the political, such as Löwenzahn , which deals with Brexit , or Neither , which is about prejudices against strangers, and the personal. Texts such as eccentric are also strongly scene-related and describe different scene types from the alternative left scene.

reception

Charts

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Nothing is new
  DE 36 05/19/2017 (1 week)

For Love A, the release marks the first chart success in the band's history. The album reached number 36 in the German album charts on May 19, 2017, but only stayed in the charts for a week.

reception

The album received very favorable reviews in the various media. In the Ox-Fanzine it was one of the best eight records of the edition and was given 9 out of 10 points by Joachim Hiller . He described the musical maturation process as follows:

“LOVE A have developed an extremely compelling, own sound, meanwhile with a heavy, pressing, punchy post-punk edge. It's about eighties, like the EDITORS were in their best times (minus keyboard), with that high, whirring guitar sound, including a booming bass and a really good, very variable drummer. "

- Joachim Hiller : Ox # 131

Arno Frank from Musikexpress awarded five out of six points and wrote:

“Every generation has its own soundtrack for this special moment between despair and hope - from Turbostaat or Tocotronic in the droning cassette deck of an old Renault 4 to - just today - the big YouTube videos by Love A from Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate Code of a province that has to be overcome in favor of Hamburg or Berlin so that it can be mourned for a lifetime. (...) Even on NOTHING IS NEW, the primacy of the texts asserts itself (...) Great (...) also the music, like the attitude behind it and this eternal moment before the beginning of the end. "

- Arno Frank : Musikexpress

Sven Kabelitz from Laut.de awarded four out of five stars.

Professional reviews
source rating
Laut.de
Music Express
Ox fanzine

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Hiller : Love A: no idea, but good intentions . In: Ox-Fanzine . 132 (June / July 2017), pp. 68-71 .
  2. ↑ LOVE A - Nothing is easy. In: YouTube . Love A, February 9, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ LOVE A - The Others. In: YouTube . Love A, April 28, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Sven Kabelitz: laut.de criticism: Sinister looks at the daily increasing dullness. Laut.de , accessed on July 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Arno Frank : Platten: Love A - Nothing is new . In: Musikexpress . June 2017, p. 92–93 ( musikexpress.de ).
  6. ↑ Chart sources: Germany
  7. ↑ Joachim Hiller : Top of the Ox: Love A - Nothing is new . In: Ox-Fanzine . 131 (April / May 2017), pp. 94 ( ox-fanzine.de ).