What remains (album)
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What remains is the fourth studio album by the German singer-songwriter Madeline Juno .
Creation and artwork
All tracks on the album were written by Madeline Juno in collaboration with changing co-authors, only one track was written and composed by her alone. Most of the titles were created in collaboration with the German author and music producer Oliver Som , who, with the exception of one title, was involved as a composer and songwriter. British singer-songwriter Joseph Cass co-wrote four tracks on the album. Furthermore, the composers and songwriters Fabrice Noel, Jonathan Kurz and Rainer Rütsch each have an author participation. The instrumentation (bass, piano and synthesizer), production and programming was largely carried out under the direction of Som. Som produced a title together with the Berlin producer Mic Schroeder. While Som is involved in the instrumentation of almost all titles, the musicians Joschka Bender (guitar), Sebastian Henzl (piano) and Benjamin Schenfler (drums) appear sporadically. The exception is Cass, who was engaged on four tracks on the guitar. Most of the titles were mastered under the direction of the Berlin sound engineer Lex Barkey , but occasionally Chris Gehringer, Zino Mikory and Som were also responsible for the mastering. Cass and Som are old companions of Juno. Cass is already contributing two titles to Juno's predecessor DNA and was a support act for Juno's DNA Tour . Som has been writing and producing tracks since the Waldbrand EP was released .
On the cover of the album you can see - next to the artist name and album title - Juno. She wears an orange jacket and stands behind a table on which she leans forward and supports herself with her arms upwards. Inside the CD there is an 18-page booklet with pictures, lyrics and the contributors. The cover picture and the pictures in the booklet all come from the Berlin photographer Danny Jungslund. The photoshoot took place on March 19, 2019, and the cover was presented for the first time on April 4, 2019. The same cover was also used for the Extended Play What remains (acoustic EP) .
Publication and promotion
What remains was first published on September 6, 2019 by Embassy of Music. The distribution was carried out by Warner Music . All songs on the album were published by BMG Rights Management and Universal Music Publishing , four tracks were published by Sentric Music Publishing and one track each by Budde Music Publishing and Warner / Chappell Music . The album consists of twelve new studio recordings and is available as CD and download. At the same time as the regular album was released, a limited “fan box” was released. This also includes the What remains (acoustic EP), which was also published at the same time, as well as merchandise . As merchandise, the fan box includes a hand-signed autograph card, a glass picture with an autograph, a money or card holder to attach to the mobile phone, an A3 poster with the cover image and an A5 sheet with tattoos. The What remains Acoustics EP is only available on CD in conjunction with the box set; it can also be purchased separately as a download.
The promo phase for the album began with the release of the first single Borderline on June 15, 2018. After the release of this, it was initially quiet again. During her Acoustic Tour from February 14, 2019 to February 18, 2019, Juno presented, for the first time, with reason enough , Before you and What remains three more new tracks on the album. On April 12, 2019 and May 31, 2019, two more singles followed with Gib nach or Automatically . With the release of Gib noch nach , advance sales for the album started at the same time. In addition to the regular music videos, Juno published a black and white video with an acoustic recording of Automatic on June 27, 2019 . In the following month a fourth official single was released with reason enough . In order to further promote the album in the run-up to its release, Juno published an unboxing video on her YouTube channel on August 30, 2019 , in which she presented the What Remains fan box . The day before the album was released, Juno published another black and white video with an acoustic recording of What remains .
content
Most of the song lyrics on the album are in German and come from Madeline Juno, who wrote the pieces together with changing co-authors. The song loaned ends with a three-line English - language outro . Musically, the songs move in the area of pop music . Five of the twelve titles can be found in acoustic form on the What remains (Akustik EP) published at the same time . In terms of content, What remains mainly deals with love, but also with topics such as depression ( automatic ), mental illness ( borderline ), religion ( if you exist ) or fear of loss ( give in ).
| # | title | Author (s) | Producer (s) | length |
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| 1 | Alone as a couple | Madeline Juno | Oliver Som | 3:35 |
| 2 | reason enough | Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Mic Schroeder, Oliver Som | 3:22 |
| 3 | Start stopping | Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:08 |
| 4th | Give in | Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:26 |
| 5 | Automatically | Madeline Juno, Fabrice Noel, Rainer Rütsch, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:15 |
| 6th | Black-and-white | Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:03 |
| 7th | new York | Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:14 |
| 8th | Before you | Joseph Cass, Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:14 |
| 9 | If you exist | Joseph Cass, Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:47 |
| 10 | Borderline | Madeline Juno, Jonathan Kurz, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:28 |
| 11 | Borrowed | Joseph Cass, Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:14 |
| 12 | What remains | Joseph Cass, Madeline Juno, Oliver Som | Oliver Som | 3:39 |
Single releases
Borderline
More than a year before the album was released, the album's first single, Borderline, was released on June 15, 2018. The single was only available as a single download. The piece is about the eternal “not at all”, “now-now-or-never”, “all-or-nothing-conflict”, in which Juno has been in since she can remember, and her own experiences with mental illness. It is by no means intended to glorify, romanticize, or make fun of borderline personality disorder . At the same time as the single, the accompanying music video also premiered on YouTube. The shooting for this took place on June 6, 2018 in Hong Kong . Directed by Juno himself. The video has a total length of 3:31 minutes and shows Juno singing the song at various locations in the booth.
Give in
On April 12, 2019, the second single from the album was released with Gib noch nach . The single was also available for single download. The song is about fear of loss and does not tell a specific story, but rather portrays what panic attacks feel like in which one acts and thinks irrationally. At the same time as the single, the accompanying music video also premiered on YouTube. You can see Juno singing the song in different locations. In some scenes you can see Juno together with a woman and a man, sometimes how they are close, sometimes how they keep their distance. The total length of the video is 3:34 minutes. Arrigo Reuss directed it. The shooting took place on April 8, 2019 in Berlin.
Automatically
With Automatic , the third single from What remains on May 31, 2019 . The single was also available for single download. About a month later, with Automatic (Helmo Remix), a new edition was released as a single download on July 5, 2019. With Automatic , Juno wanted to write a song that one would like to dance to, scratch a new genre and try something in her mother tongue that she personally wanted to do beforehand have not yet trusted. She wanted the song to have a depth that could just as easily be ignored. The piece is structured like a conversation from beginning to end , sometimes more reproach, sometimes more monologue or insight . The personification refers to the "pitch blackest" of all corners of her thoughts. Depression would come and go as they please and would have you so under control that your "normal" me in all the familiarity, in all the habit in such a "love-hate relationship" to this other version of you. Two days after the single was released, the accompanying music video celebrated its premiere on YouTube. You can see Juno, dressed in a skin-colored full body suit, dancing through a room and singing the song. In the middle of the room is a cluster of televisions. All over the room there are black-clad extras who do not move. The extras were 15 fans who were invited. The total length of the video is 3:03 minutes. As with Gib, it was directed by Arrigo Reuss. The shooting took place on May 25, 2019.
reason enough
With reason enough , the fourth and so far last single from the album was released on July 26, 2019. Like its predecessors, it was only available for single download. The content is reason enough to accept your pain and gradually let go of it in order to find your way back to yourself and no longer have to be a version of yourself suffering from the consequences and circumstances. Around two weeks after the single was released, the accompanying music video celebrated its premiere on YouTube on August 7, 2019. You can see Juno singing the song at various locations in a desert landscape. The total length of the video is 3:23 minutes. Elias CJ Köhler directed the film. While all single releases missed the official charts, there was reason enough for at least one day in the iTunes daily reports. The single reached position 83 on September 9, 2019.
What remains tour
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Between October 23, 2019 and November 7, 2019, Juno and her main band - consisting of Bender, Henzl, and Scheufler - went on their What Remains Tour . The tour took them through 13 German cities. Juno gave her first concerts in nine of 13 clubs as well as in the three cities of Frankenthal , Freiburg im Breisgau and Osnabrück . The concerts in Berlin , Dortmund , Frankfurt am Main and Hanover were sold out by the end of September . The concert in Dresden was originally supposed to take place in the Groovestation, but was moved to the Scheune cultural center . As with the acoustic tour , the German-Irish band Varley will play again in the opening act for nine concerts. The Swiss singer-songwriter Damian Lynn played in the opening act for the remaining four concerts . During the tour, Juno and her backing band presented 19 different titles. The repertoire consisted mainly of a pop music set, with some acoustic performances in the middle of the concerts. More than half of the set list consisted of pieces from the presentation album What remains . From What remains , Juno played all the songs with the exception of the title Black and White .
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Reviews
Stefan Mertlik from the German-language online magazine laut.de awarded the album two out of a possible five stars. Juno sings about stuffed hearts, pills for pain and sleepless nights. Nevertheless, it should all sound demanding. "If we collide and you in me zirkulierst" she choose to Automatically big words and directed so to the school with advanced courses German. Three years ago she would probably have written lines like this in her diary : “What does love bring me if nobody wants it?” After lonely nights with the tissue of a pubescent Internet user, the music still doesn't sound. Thanks to electronic up-tempo beats and catchy choruses, Juno barely missed the hit . When listening, you immediately have the tactless clapping of the ZDF television garden in your head. Juno is applying as a Vanessa Mai alternative for people who hold the "jazz breakfast on the parish square for high culture". She tries to keep her formula for success fresh. On What remains she play with voice effects ( New York ), rely on purely acoustic instrumentation (for two alone ) and switch to English for a few bars ( borrowed ). With If there is you, she even moves away from the topic of togetherness and takes a critical look at God and her relationship to religion . He shouldn't doubt that her feelings while writing were real. The fact that she can write more about it than the usual empty phrases shimmers through again and again: "Whether your mom says today that she doesn't like me, and she never did." Lines like these got stuck because they weren't in every x- pop up any song about love. Unfortunately, they would be an exception on the twelve pieces. After listening to What remains, there is not much left in terms of content and music. That is a shame because Juno can also do otherwise.
Matthias Reichel from cdstart.de rated the album with six out of ten points. Juno's latent “meaningful voice” ( borrowed ) and the distinctive accentuations ( New York ) are at the center of modern, radio-friendly pop songs such as Borderline , Reason Enough or Before You , which have been integrated into a contemporary production. The overall result is never spectacular - like a Taylor Swift album, for example - but it is rock solid and well balanced between pure pop music and singer-songwriter attitude. The acoustically held opener To Two alone leads the listener on a false folk- pop trail, but that would be resolved immediately afterwards with reason enough , as subtle beats come to the fore, which become a central element in the course of the album should emphasize and also in ballads we give after all. You can dance to songs like Automatic or Vor dir ; the lighter waved to New York . A “carefree pop album” doesn't need much more to function. Unless someone had the idea of looking for the absolute depth of this pleasantly calm work. That would be unfair and clearly too much criticism. Reichel highlighted the titles Borderline , Reason enough , New York and Just for two as “tips for playing” .
Katharina Bruckschwaiger from the German-language e-zine Plattentests.de awarded four out of a possible ten points. The visual design of the music video for Automatic speaks a clear language: the singer has matured, a stylish cosmopolitan . Once you see Juno in colorful but elegant clothes in front of a wide backdrop, another time in more subtle tones in front of the Vogue interior. The presentation is consistent and shows an ambitious pop musician. It only becomes problematic if you let the audio track run along. Juno initially presents herself as a copywriter between the styles. As about who would be Coldplay - lead guitar in reason enough , the "Imogen Heap vocals" in the chorus to New York or the almost aggressive hip-hop -Beat in Borderline . It's just a shame that the eclecticism that is practiced always remains on the surface of the water, so that real risks “in line with format radio” are avoided. Sometimes the mixture backfires right from the start ( give in ). “What brings me love if nobody wants it?”, Juno languishes “angelically” in the pre-chorus, then the “softly drawn Mallorca dancehall” sets in and transforms the song into his own parody . Thematically, Juno works off the pain of separation and past love. Unfortunately, her pieces lack closeness and soulful discussion. The production is too overloaded and the content does not go far enough. The only really intimate moment on the record was provided by the “captivating” opening chords in Just for Two . The title song turns out to be a “charming pop song” through and through with a “prancing” lead guitar and loving falsetto . In the playful chorus, Juno would give her own backing vocals . How “rich in variety” and “expressive” her voice is can be seen here almost by itself, while the instruments stroll lively towards the exit. The song was also highlighted as the only "highlight" by Bruckschwaiger. The bottom line to bring the twelve titles to the point, is not easy. The reviewer nevertheless tries to use the artist's rhyme style : “It's over. Mickey Mouse. You are out. Out of the house. What a pain. In my heart. That's no joke. Just a little bit of commerce. "
Charts and chart placements
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What remains reached position 25 in the album charts in Germany and stayed in the top 100 for a week. In the midweek charts of the first week of sales, the album reached position 19. In the German-language album charts , Was remains reached position 13 and in the download charts position 16. In addition, the album was placed in the German iTunes daily evaluations for several days and reached position 16 highest chart price on the day of its publication. For Juno it is the fourth chart success in the German album charts and the second highest chart rating after The Unknown (position 24).
Individual evidence
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