Strange Attractor - New Album

[MalilaM]

Interesting discussion: CDs were meant to last forever when they started selling them. So far, I'm glad mine are all good. :)


Anyway, I'll have to wait for the CD release in Amazon America to have one delivery with some other items a group of friends and I are planning to buy, so we'll have just one shipping fee... in the meantime, I also hope the exchange rate will continue to go down again.
*crossing fingers*

[Streetside Romeo]

Originally Posted by alphaandre

a first CD-Review was released in the german Magazin "Sonic Seducer 04/2017"
http://www.sonic-seducer.de/

Here the text (german only)

Alphaville "Strange Attractor"
(Poloydor/Universal)

Ganz einfach haben es sich Alphaville nie gemacht. Nach dem gigantischen Erfolg ihres Debutalbums bemühte sich Marian Gold stetig, den Soundkosmos der Band in Richtungen jenseits des Synthpops zu erweitern. Doch ihre Hits wie "Forever Young" oder "Big in Japan" waren Fluch und Segen zugleich. Sie öffneten Tür und Tor, aber die Soundexperimente stießen nicht immer auf Gegenliebe. Die Leute wollte einfach weiter geile Songs im Stil der Hits. Das letzte Comeback Album "Catching Rays on Giant" hatte einige davon im Gepäck, darunter "Die Another Day". Guten Pop gibt es auch auf "Strange Attractor", nach einem ungewöhnlich ruhigen, aber stimmungsvollen Einstieg mit "Giants". "House of Ghosts" ist zum Beispiel ein hervorragender De/Vision Song, "Around the Universe" stünde a-ha sehr gut zu Gesicht. Mit "Enigma" kommt alter Balladen Glanz auf: elegische Melodie, schöne Poparrangements, sanfte Elektronik und Golds charismatische Stimme. Auch "A handful of Darkness" ist ein toller Alphaville Moment - bis ein Chor Pathos eimerweise über Refrain kübelt. Und immer wieder toben sich Alphaville mit Soundexperimenten jenseits des Elektropop aus. Zupfen funkige Gitarren in "Marionettes with Halos", versuchen sie sich als frühe The Killers in "Sexyland", fühlen den Blues und Rock`n Roll in "Rendevouyeur" und erliegen in "Heartbreakcity" dem Discofieber der BeeGees.
"Strange Attractor" ist viel, aber vor allem zu viel auf einmal. Schlecht ist das Album nicht. Aber es beschleicht einen das Gefühl, dass Alphaville versuchen, sich mit aller Macht neu zu erfinden. Nur verrennen sie sich in sehr unterschiedlichen Ideen. Wären sie eine junge Band, gäbe es gegen das Ausprobieren und Herumtasten nichts einzuwenden. Aber die Truppe um Marian Gold hat über 30 Jahre auf dem Buckel und macht sicherlich keine Musik für die postdigitale Generation. Let´s face it: Ein großer Teil des Stammpublikums hat genug gravierende Veränderungen in seinem Leben durchgemacht, als Raider in Twix umbenannt worden. Und erwartet von Alphaville, einfach gute Alphaville Songs abzuliefern. So einfach ist das. (Torsten Schäfer)
Sonic Seducer 04/2017

This grabs a top spot among the most moronic reviews I have ever read - basically he says "it's a pretty good album with some really great songs, but how dare they try something new...they are OOOOOLD guys and a good part of their fanbase is OOOOOLD, too, so the deal is: please sound like you did on "Forever Young" and dont surprise us, EVER, because we can't handle surprises anymore, at our age".

Seriously, is this supposed to be a joke? SONIC SEDUCER should be able to do better than this...

[shapeseven]

Originally Posted by Streetside Romeo

This grabs a top spot among the most moronic reviews I have ever read - basically he says "it's a pretty good album with some really great songs, but how dare they try something new...they are OOOOOLD guys and a good part of their fanbase is OOOOOLD, too, so the deal is: please sound like you did on "Forever Young" and dont surprise us, EVER, because we can't handle surprises anymore, at our age".

Seriously, is this supposed to be a joke? SONIC SEDUCER should be able to do better than this...

Thank you, this is exactly what I thought. But it connects to his passion for De/Vision whose albums sound all the same.

[musicdb]

Hello Everybody

I got my CD from "Strange Attractor" today.......wow..wow.....
I can't believe it.....lol....I live in Switzerland and got it.......so great!

I will make a Review after 2 or 3 listening.......this evening I will start to enoy the album for the first time!

[musicdb]

Originally Posted by Streetside Romeo

This grabs a top spot among the most moronic reviews I have ever read - basically he says "it's a pretty good album with some really great songs, but how dare they try something new...they are OOOOOLD guys and a good part of their fanbase is OOOOOLD, too, so the deal is: please sound like you did on "Forever Young" and dont surprise us, EVER, because we can't handle surprises anymore, at our age".

Seriously, is this supposed to be a joke? SONIC SEDUCER should be able to do better than this...

Hey you are absolutely right....lol...see it in the same way!

Today I got my CD from "Strange Attractor" here in Switzerland.......!!!

[wii]

Any pure synths tracks musicdb

[musicdb]

Hi Wii

I will start to listen this evening and enjoy track by track! So I will make a Review here!
I think there a some synths tracks, but the album will be more complex, different and creative with much more
new sounds...so wait till saturday or sunday and I will make a longer Review!

[shapeseven]

musicdb: post a Photo. I think you bluff.

[jetset]

Originally Posted by shapeseven

musicdb: post a Photo. I think you bluff.

Yeah, Switzerland time zone = GMT+24

(but the digital release should be available for purchase tomorrow on some platforms).

[marcibh]

Its not bluff. http://www.universalmusic.ch/music/a.../0602557404258