Trips (album)
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April 29, 2016 |
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48 min 49 s |
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Principal Studios, Sending |
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Trips is the fifth studio album by the German post rock / post metal band Long Distance Calling . It was released on April 29, 2016 via InsideOut Music and is the first studio album with singer Petter Carlsen .
Emergence
Songwriting
The band started working on their new album in 2015. First, the musicians met for jam sessions in their rehearsal room . However, the band didn't get in the right mood to let their creativity run free. As a consequence, the musicians withdrew into the lonely nature for three sessions in order to be able to concentrate on their work. For this the band went to the Netherlands , the Harz Mountains and Rhineland-Palatinate . Due to the remote location of the places they visited, the musicians were able to work on the new songs in a focused manner, since, according to the guitarist Florian Füntmann, there was nothing more to do than music and food.
However, the musicians were disturbed by various strokes of fate, as five people from the close band died within nine months. According to bassist Jan Hoffmann, some members had to organize funerals while the studio was recording . The guitarist Florian Füntmann added that the musicians were able to preserve all the negative feelings of the past year with the album. In addition, according to Jan Hoffmann, the band deliberately opened up to new musical styles and dared numerous experiments. For the first time in the band's history, the musicians wrote more music than they used for the album.
In total, the band had around ninety minutes of material by the end of the songwriting process. After that, some songs were rearranged while other ideas were discarded. As part of a pre-production, the musicians recorded demos that were left for two to three months before the actual recordings began. The concept for the texts was developed by Florian Füntmann and Jan Hoffmann.
Recordings
Was taken trips at Principal Studios in sending . The album was produced by Vincent Sorg . According to Jan Hoffmann, the band wanted to record the album near the musicians' homes in Münster and Dortmund . After a phone call and a personal conversation, the choice fell on Vincent Sorg, who previously worked with bands such as In Extremo , Die Toten Hosen or the Broilers . Singer Martin Fischer recorded keyboards and sound effects for the album . Since he wanted to concentrate more on his private life in the future, he left the band after the recordings were completed. The new singer was the Norwegian Petter Carlsen.
Carlsen had already sung the song Welcome Change on the previous album The Flood Inside in a duet with the anathema singer Vincent Cavanagh. In contrast to the early studio albums, where the individual instruments were recorded one after the other, all musicians were always present when recording trips . According to Jan Hoffmann, the band was able to implement any improvements to the songs immediately. According to Jan Hoffmann, the already finished texts were rearranged in the studio. Overall, the recordings for the album took between four and five weeks.
publication
The album cover and the artwork were made by Martin Großmann.
Since the album sometimes shows a naked woman, Jan Hoffmann initially expressed the fear that Facebook would not allow the picture. However, this did not happen. The album was released on CD , as a download and on gold , silver and transparent vinyl . Exclusively through online - mail order company Amazon.com a limited vinyl box was expelled. This contains the album on two transparent long-playing records, on CD and a 7 ″ single with the exclusive bonus tracks Escape and Echo .
For the song Getaway one was music video shot in which the German actor Ralf Richter (u a.. The boat or - Bang Boom Bang A sure-fire thing plays along). The band got the inspiration for the video when they saw the movie Rocky and decided to make music for it. Another video was shot for the song Trauma .
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According to Jan Hoffmann, the album title Trips has several meanings. For one, he was referring to the music in which the listener can get lost. Another meaning relates to the creation process of the album, in which the musicians have withdrawn to different places such as a secluded house or a mountain hut. The main idea behind the album title is time travel , which a person carries out in his dreams .
“ Trips is synonymous with dreams. In the texts we allude to dreams from different perspectives - that in dreams you change your own personality or travel back to your childhood or even move into the future . We didn't want to approach this topic on a science fiction level, but rather on an emotional one. "
In Reconnect is about a family man who finds one day that he has done anything wrong in his life and many people hurt. He hopes he can fix the situation before it's too late. Flux ends with a quote from Douglas Adams ' novel The Electric Monk .
reception
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Reviews
The German magazine Metal Hammer named Trips album of the month. According to Tom Küppers, “the voice of the new singer Petter Carlsen would give the new songs a very special charm”, which “goes well with an increased catchiness”. The new material "feels rounder, more thoughtful and more reflective". The band "ignores all expectations and delivers another masterpiece". Küppers rated the album with seven out of seven points. For Peter Kubaschk from the online magazine Powermetal.de , the engagement of Petter Carlsen as the new singer turned out to be the "best possible choice for trips ". While Kubaschk “also heard the previous album without the song numbers”, this would be “unimaginable” for the new album. Since "there is shine on all levels" Kubaschk awarded 9.5 out of ten points.
Felix Mildner from the online magazine Plattentests was critical . In his opinion, the album has the "general problem that many of the selected puzzle pieces don't really fit together." Then “shapes would be distorted and edges smoothed”, for which Mildner gave five out of ten points. Daniel Thomas from the online magazine laut.de also rated the album negatively. The album "seems awkward, thoughtless but above all outdated". If the band were " not so serious about trips , the album could pass as a pastiche ". Overall, Thomas described the album as "a trip of the unpleasant kind, free from any risk of addiction ".
Chart positions and awards
Trips rose to number 23 in the German and 66 in the Swiss album charts. In addition, the album was seventh on the German vinyl charts . The editors of the German online magazine Powermetal.de voted Lines the second best song of the year and only had to admit defeat to Recharging the Void by the band Vektor . In the category "Album of the Year" took trips court 19. The German Phono Academy awarded trips as the best production in the field Rock / Metal from.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Steven Reid: LONG DISTANCE CALLING an interview with guitarist Flo Füntmann. Sea of Tranquility, accessed April 23, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Katrin Riedl: Five deaths and one birth . In: Metal Hammer , May 2016, page 52
- ↑ a b c d e f Thomas Kupfer: Dream trips in the mountain hut . In: Rock Hard , May 2016, page 40
- ↑ Peter Kubaschk: LONG DISTANCE CALLING: Contract with InsideOut, album in April. Powermetal.de , accessed on April 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Britta Helm: Everything is open . In: Visions , issue 278, page 44
- ↑ Long Distance Calling. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 6, 2016 .
- ^ Long Distance Calling in the Swiss Hit Parade. Hitparade.ch, accessed on May 11, 2016 .
- ^ Tom Küppers: Long Distance Calling - Trips. Metal Hammer. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .
- ^ Peter Kubaschk: Long Distance Calling - Trips. Powermetal.de, accessed on April 18, 2016 .
- ^ Felix Mildner: Long Distance Calling - Trips. Plattentests.de, accessed on April 28, 2016 .
- ^ Daniel Thomas: Long Distance Calling - Trips. laut.de , accessed on April 28, 2016 .
- ^ Vinyl Charts: Udo Lindenberg beats Eric Clapton. GfK Entertainment, accessed on June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Peter Kubaschk: Redaktionspoll 2016 - the evaluation. Powermetal.de, accessed on January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Yan Vogel: "It was an accident that the record became so hard". laut.de , accessed on September 8, 2018 .
Web links
- Official website
- Trips at Allmusic (English)