How we want to live
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How we want to live is the tenth studio album by the German indie rock band Tocotronic . It was released as the successor to the album Schall & Wahn on January 25, 2013 on Vertigo Records and contains 17 songs.
Reviews
Andreas Borcholte rated the album with 9.5 out of 10 possible points and sums it up for Spiegel Online : "The existential fear that always resonated with Tocotronic has now also reached the body."
Franz Tanner from laut.de overwrites his album review with the title "Sultry-euphoric odes for the academic disco":
"The sum of these pop-philosophical considerations raises this album to the highest heights with each listening session or throws it back into the deepest depths, if one just wants to find an overexerted access to the idiosyncratic poetry of Dirk von Lowtzow."
Cover design
The cover shows the words “How we want to live” in red on a brown background. These are words that were written by Elsa Bablitzka. Jan Müller in the January edition of Rolling Stone 2013:
“I looked after this lady during my community service and had a pen friendship with her. ... We have left the word 'life' in capital letters - on the one hand because this word was not in lower case in your letters, on the other hand because it creates a certain urgency. "
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The song On the Path of Twilight was released as a 7 ”vinyl on February 4, 2013 as the first single . In addition to the single, it contains the title track from the album How we want to live as a second track . On April 12th 2013 the second single I will stay sober for you was released as a 7 ”vinyl maxi and download. It consists of remixed versions of songs I want to stay sober for you and abolishing .
Track list
- In the basement - 3:15
- On the Path of Dawn - 3:58
- Abolish - 4:53
- I want to stay sober for you - 3:08
- Chloroform - 3:11
- Neuter - 4:14
- Vulgar Verses - 4:42
- Wait for me at the bottom of the swimming pool - 6:08 am
- The improvement of the earth - 5:40
- Exile - 3:10
- The revolt is within me - 3:48
- Warm and gray - 5:06
- One theory - 3:21
- Afternoon Hell Ride - 2:23 am
- New Zones - 4:41
- How we want to live - 4:23
- Under the sand - 2:21
Contributors
- Dirk von Lowtzow : vocals , guitar
- Rick McPhail : guitar , keyboard , choirs
- Jan Müller : Bass , choirs
- Arne Zank : drums , choirs
- Julia Wilton, Michaela Meise: Additional chants
- Ben Lauber : Kanun , glockenspiel , castanets
- Ebba and Jakobus Durstewitz : wind instruments , arrangement of wind instruments
- Dorit Chrysler : Theremin
- Moses Schneider : producer
- Ingo Kraus: Recordings in the studios "Candy Bomber Studio" and "Transporterraum" in Berlin and in "The Upper Room", Hamburg
- Michael Ilbert: Mixing in the "Hansa Mix Room", Berlin
- Michael Schwabe: Mastering in “Monoposto Mastering”, Düsseldorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tocotronic - "How we want to live" at spiegel-online.de (accessed on May 16, 2013)
- ↑ Sultry, euphoric odes for the academic disco at laut.de (accessed on May 16, 2013)
- ^ Rolling Stone, Issue 219, January 2013, p. 40.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
Digital is better (1995) | After Lost Time (1995) | We come to complain (1996) | It doesn't matter, but (1997) | KOOK (1999) | Tocotronic (2002) | Pure reason must never win (2005) | Surrender (2007) | Schall & Wahn (2010) | How we want to live (2013) | Tocotronic (2015) | Infinity (2018)