The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me

My version comes without poster and without download card. Odered directly from City Slang. Also no front sticker. Same or diffenrent press?

To be honest, after Neon Golden this was quite a bummer. Following up such a modern classic album is always difficult, but it is hard to find anything on this album that got me exited or making me want to put it on again.

The electric strumming and gentle electronic throbs of "Good Lies" is a quiet conjuring for the Notwist's THE DEVIL, YOU + ME, but it's the strings at the start of "Where is This World" that suggest something demonic emerging, even if the pentagram and black candles quickly fade as the song's more gentle nature reveals itself and stretches into "Gloomy Planets." The title track takes a more acoustic tack with its guitars, until "Gravity" add a little twitchiness to its repertoire. The album as a whole is sedate, especially with the lullaby-like tones of "Sleep," but it adds a few industrial clangs to the moodier "On Planet Off." "Boneless" steps up the tempo some, while "Hands On Us" has some hints of the blues in its piano backing, while the piano accompanies a simple guitar on the closer, "Gone Gone Gone." A quiet album with moments of beauty.