Nowhere

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Nowhere
Sierra Kidd studio album

Publication
(s)

4th July 2014

Label (s) Indipendenza

Genre (s)

German hip-hop

Title (number)

16

production

RAF Camora

Nowhere is the first studio album by German rapper Sierra Kidd . It was released on July 4, 2014 and reached number 6 on the German album charts, number 24 on the Austrian album charts and number 60 on the album charts in Switzerland .

Track list

  1. Sierra
  2. Whatsapp
  3. Nowhere
  4. Glow stick
  5. Cupid's headshot
  6. I still saw him (feat. Prinz Pi )
  7. wave
  8. 20,000 roses
  9. Splinter Sea
  10. Strom (feat. RAF Camora )
  11. XO
  12. signal
  13. mobile
  14. Poison
  15. 540 KM
  16. Kidd

Cover design

The album cover shows a class photo from his childhood on which all the other children were painted gray faces on their faces. The background is his childhood, when he was grossly rejected and bullied by his classmates . The processing of his experiences therefore takes place not only in terms of content in his melancholy, dreary music, but also in the design of the shell.

Versions

The studio album Nirgendwer was released in three different versions: Nirgendwer, Nirgendwer (Deluxe Version) and Nirgendwer (Limited Fan Edition).

On Nirgendwer (Deluxe Version) , which is only available for download and streaming, the songs XO (Live in Berlin) and Besser als Du (Live in Berlin) and the official music video for Whatsapp are also included.

At Amazon , there were exclusive album Nirgendwer (Limited Fan Edition) with the standard version of the album, a T-shirt in size L, ten Postcards (a card containing an original signature of Sierra Kidd), three stickers and Extended Plays head Villa 2.0 .

Title list of the Extended Play Kopfvilla 2.0

Disc 1

  1. XO (The Stereoids Remix)
  2. Problem (Babbel Beats Remix)
  3. Alone (Eckz Beats Remix)
  4. Signal (The Stereoids Remix)
  5. Kopfvilla (The Stereoids Remix)
  6. Stairs (Cristal Remix)
  7. Keller ( Johnny Pepp & RAF Camora Remix)
  8. Better than you (Live in Berlin)
  9. Problem (Live in Berlin)
  10. Nobody (Live in Berlin)

Disc 2

  1. Sierra (instrumental)
  2. Whatsapp (instrumental)
  3. Nowhere (instrumental)
  4. Glow stick (instrumental)
  5. Amor's Headshot (Instrumental)
  6. I still saw him (instrumental)
  7. Wave (instrumental)
  8. 20,000 roses (instrumental)
  9. Splittermeer (Instrumental)
  10. Current (instrumental)
  11. XO (instrumental)
  12. Signal (instrumental)
  13. Mobile (instrumental)
  14. Poison (instrumental)
  15. 540 KM (instrumental)
  16. Kidd (instrumental)

reception

Nowhere entered the top 100 of the album charts in three countries. In Switzerland it was at number 60 for a week, in Austria at number 24 and in Germany it even reached number 6 and stayed in the charts for two weeks.

Daniel Schieferdecker wrote in his review for Juice that Sierra Kidd left a lot of leeway for interpretation with his album and at the same time noted a resemblance to Cro , as they “both [...] vocalists of their generation, melodic singing rappers with a good one Feel for hooks and (at least initially and only to be understood literally) faceless [are] ”. In addition, the album is produced excellently, as Kidd's world of thought is excellently staged. The Juice editor Sascha Ehlert, on the other hand, was of the opinion that “nowhere else does not catch you”, but he does not know what it is. He wrote: “Sierra Kidd is very good at rapping, he can write, he has the right beats. And the idea of ​​mixing pop appeal and catchy hooks à la Cro with melancholy and depth as a youthful MC is of course obvious. But that's where the catch lies. It's all too obvious. ”In addition, Kidd indulged in“ a lethargic melancholy that is not resolved ” throughout the album's season .

Franziska Niesar from the digital youth channel Puls described Kidd's rapping style on the album as "Depri-HipHop with Pop-borrowings", in which the misunderstood feel understood. For this alone you have to "celebrate the guy" according to her. Nowhere is it about “loneliness and darkness in dreary black and white. Boredom, melancholy, depression ”.

In the laut.de review by Dani Fromm, she claimed that Kidd works “especially when he incorporates loosely sung passages, like Cro's tragic twin, the personified alternative to his Happyhappy Joyjoy attitude”. This image is not of long-lasting importance and becomes too diverse in the course of the first hearing. Nowhere doesn’t show any new facets and “between the opener Sierra and the credits Kidd there’s not pink, purple, pink, but at most three colors of gray”. The beats all sound the same and the monotony of the album is hard to beat. Fromm also said that she was curious to see how Kidd would develop, even if she “had fed up with this record”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE, AT, CH
  2. ↑ Daniel Schieferdecker & Sascha Ehlert: Battle Of The Ear: Sierra Kidd - Nirgendwer auf juice.de
  3. ↑ Franziska Niesar: Sierra Kidd - The great nowhere on br.de/puls
  4. ^ Dani Fromm: Three colors of gray. on laut.de