Pure prudence may never win

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Pure prudence may never win
Studio album from Tocotronic

Publication
(s)

January 17, 2005

Label (s) L'age d'or

Format (s)

CD, vinyl

Genre (s)

Indie rock ( Hamburg school )

Title (number)

13

occupation
chronology
Tocotronic
2002 		Pure prudence may never win Surrender
2007

Pure reason must never win is the seventh studio album by the German indie rock group Tocotronic , which was released in January 2005.

The album, which was produced in just nine days, aroused considerable media interest when it was released, stood in the German album charts for nine weeks and reached third place.

style

In contrast to the previous album, the album is characterized by an instrumental reduction to guitar, bass and drums, with simple song structures. The band wanted an "ascetic sound".

In contrast to this are the texts “in which the rules of physics and common sense are broken with relish; Tocotronic never sounded more poetic. "With this, Tocotronic are turning against what they believe to be a strong focus on the present in contemporary art (" total will to reality "," escape to reality ", Dirk von Lowtzow)

Reviews

  • "The magic of Dirk von Lowtzow's dream lyric still lies in the unnameable, in the empty spaces and nameless places [...]" (J. Wigger, Spiegel online)
  • “But the fan would like to cry a little after the ironic rock breakup of the early days. When a band like Tocotronic, which was passed through the discourse classes of the Hamburg School and defined itself through playing with naivety, seeks (and finds) connection to the eternal fantasies of pop, a piece of original pop culture is finally adopted. A maturation process that could hardly be prevented. "(F. Sawatzki, Die Zeit)
  • “Lowtzow impresses with two central things on this album: Firstly, he has improved his singing, which is impressively shown to advantage in the mostly soft compositions. Secondly, he was inspired by his second band Phantom / Ghost to penetrate even deeper into those "deepest depths" of the human soul. The texts read like a kind of psycho-anthropology, the belief in Lovecraft's undefined evil is omnipresent, but love triumphs. "(S. Seiler, 3sat Kulturzeit)
  • "The defiant Hamburg school has become a graduate college specializing in" Beauty, Guitars and Self-Loss ". If Tocotronic once opposed the fact that the world didn't understand them, they don't care today. Even if they sing lalala and act like a cross between Deleuzians, Surrealists and Situationists on cosmic wandering projects, this has nothing to do with new German inwardness. But with a hook that they hit with their own zeitgeist. "(K. Riesselmann, taz)

Track list

  1. But live here, no thanks , 5:05
  2. At the highest altitudes , 4:25
  3. The eighth ocean , 5:23
  4. Don't worry about anyone , 4:08
  5. Against the Grain , 4:33
  6. Angel , 4:23
  7. Pure reason must never win , 4:19
  8. Cheers for Fears , 4:04 am
  9. All in all , 4:03
  10. My prince , 4:13
  11. Day of the Dead , 4:47
  12. In the deepest depths , 1:58
  13. I heard voices , 5:47
    On the 2008 re-release only:
  14. Mystery Symphony , 9:15 (Also on the LaDo Limited Edition from 2004)
  15. Dark Star , 2:43
  16. Pure reason must never win (acoustic version), 4:19

Single releases

Cover of the single Pure Vernunft may never win
  • But live here, no thanks ( L'age d'or ) - The title is a critical reaction to the debate about “German pop self-confidence” and German-speaking radio ratings as part of the I Can't Relax initiative in Germany , to which Tocotronic belong . The song is to be understood as a parody of Volker Lechtenbrink's "I like".
  • Against the Grain ( L'age d'or )
  • Pure reason must never win ( L'age d'or )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Bahners, A. Rosenfelder, K. Ungerer: The world is boring in principle. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 15, 2005, No. 12 / page 38
  2. ↑ a b vertigo.fm: Tocotronic - Biography 1993-2007 (accessed in May 2009)
  3. ^ A. Borcholte, J. Wigger: Rock band Tocotronic: "Denial as a principle" Spiegel online, January 13, 2005
  4. ↑ Listened to: The most important CDs of the week. Spiegel online, January 17, 2005 (accessed May 2009)
  5. ^ F. Sawatzki: Care for the excess! Die Zeit, January 20, 2005, No. 4
  6. ↑ S. Seiler: Against the victory of reason. 3sat / Kulturzeit, January 18, 2005
  7. ↑ K. Riesselmann: The walk through the mirror. taz, January 21, 2005

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