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Artist: Mundtot
Title: Wir
Genre: Rock / Alternative / Indie
Release Date: 13th November 2015
Label: Mara Records


Album Review

German rockers MUNDTOT are always ready to try something new and not afraid of musical experiments. The band’s third studio album fully proves it presenting inspiring, aggressive and at the same time deep and soothing music. After the first listening the new creation entitled ‘Wir’ produces a strange impression mostly due to more or less unexpected material, inspired also by modern German punk scene. But gradually the songs are revealing all their facets and one may want to listen to them again and more attentively. The cover picture and the title of the album already give us a hint to what we can find on the record – thought-provoking, expressive, heartfelt, even personal tracks, which smoothly changes each other making the whole thing look or actually sound complete. ‘Wir bleiben hier’ opens the album vigorously and loudly and sets the necessary atmosphere for the following compositions. The single ‘Immer schon zu spät’ is a good example of alternative with a sufficient portion of drive, energy and rock.

Short instrumental piece ‘Alles was bleibt’ passes into dark and cold ‘Kalter Rauch’. This song contains both typical features of the band and reflects the mood of the current release. Other great dynamic tracks are ‘So weit, so fern’ and ‘Unsere Zeit’. Beautiful beginning of ‘Scherben auf der Tanzfläche’ immediately catches and it feels that this track somehow starts the second part of the album, less punk, more gothic, of course with a couple of exceptions like ‘Stimmen Fragen’ and ‘Worauf bist du stolz?’. Anyway the rest of the material sounds richer, more profound and soulful. My favourites are ‘Wir müssen los’ and ‘Sonar’, however each composition deserves a special attention. Peaceful and moving ‘...wenn es nicht mehr geht’ with a pretty nice guitar part makes you want to listen to everything once again.

All in all ‘Wir’ is worth listening to and will be definitely appreciated yet it may just take some more time. Again the songs are about modern life, problems we face and choices we make, but what is more important the music provides enough space to fill it with your own thoughts and senses as the end is left open.


Tracklist

01. Wir bleiben hier – 3:43
02. Immer schon zu spat – 4:13
03. Alles, was bleibt – 1:08
04. Kalter Rauch – 3:19
05. So weit, so fern – 3:04
06. Unsere Zeit – 3:26
07. Scherben auf der Tanzfläche – 3:55
08. Wir müssen los – 3:25
09. Stimmen Fragen – 2:04
10. Worauf bist du stolz? – 2:51
11. Sonar – 3:41
12. Ausgebrannt – 3:35
13. …wenn es nicht mehr geht – 3:53


Line-up

Tino - Vocals, Bass
Andi - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Cesco - Synths


Website

http://www.mundtot.net / https://www.facebook.com/Mundtot


Cover Picture

mundtot wir


Rating

Music: 10
Sound: 10
Total: 10 / 10





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