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Rating: With an album title that's quite unusual, as if an alarm clock is stuck, And One offers a new work after releasing a Best of. At the first listen, it may seem very commercial - just think of "Get You Closer", a very pleasant song, but one that doesn't show much lyrical effort.
However, the album often evokes hypnotic atmospheres and you might think that the obsessive refrain of "Get You Closer" relies on this theme, made explicit by the track "Hypnotize", a song that deals with the influence one can have on another: after all, who controls whom, who dominates in the couple? The theme of hypnosis, of brainwashing, is also found on the album cover: the light bulb draws our gaze towards four nines that seem to parade before our eyes. Even a more cheerful and less committed song like "Evil Boys" can suggest a similar vision because of those " Brainless, aimless... "; "Evil Boys go nowhere...": the moralist has arrived and tries to impose his view of the facts through a blame that he repeats endlessly.
With the theme of hypnosis, we enter a fantastic and unsettling dimension and "Und wieder" is the best example of it. At first, it’s a matter of a landscape (sun, wind...), it is a song about the cycle of nature; but soon, a feeling of desolation is introduced by the "Letzte Vogel" (the last bird). Always on a more melancholic dimension, track 7 ("Pray") and track 8 ("Men In Uniform") should be highlighted. It deals with suffering, pain, first through a song with industrial sounds ("Pray"), focused on religious motifs, and then with something more akin to a sorrowful and heart-wrenching ballad. However, it is true that other songs seem less profound and lighter. This is the case with "Pimmelmann" (quite unbearable, in my opinion) or "Michael Caine", serious but also carefree; but especially "Love & Fingers", which makes use of a contagious rhythm and a humorous text. It’s the track for when you're feeling down. The only negative note of the album is its last track, "Der erste Schritt": a synthesized voice speaks over a very monotonous base (are we still on the hypnosis theme?), nothing phenomenal.
Nevertheless, let's not be fooled by this incident: it will not be because of two less successful tracks ("Pimmelmann" and "Der erste Schritt") that we will condemn it. It is an excellent electronic album that does not just play with rhythms and sounds but knows how to engage with deep themes.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Get You Closer (04:13)
Receiving you
The games we ever knew now
Now Get the pain
My heart's receiving you
Inviting me
The scares we ever knew now
Now Get the pain
Your heart's receiving me
If I could save the love I found
Every move and every sound
To get you closer
If I could dance on holy ground
Every groove and every sound
To get you closer
Believing you
The dunes we ever new now
Now Get the pain
My heart's believing you
Forgiving me
The stars we ever knew now
Now Get the pain
Your heart's believing me
If I could save the love I found
Every move and every sound
To get you closer
If I could dance on holy ground
Every groove and every sound
To get you closer
04 Pimmelmann (03:29)
Ich fliege über Berg und Tal
Wer nackig fliegt, der muss auch mal
Ich seh' dich sitzen dort am See
Und strull' in deinen Blasentee
Ich bin ein Held - ein Supermann
Der ausser strullern noch vieles andere kann
Ich helfe Damen übern Damm
Bevor ich ihnen mein --------- reinramm
Die Kinder mögen mich gar sehr
Die Bullen suchen mich noch mehr
Doch wenn man mich nicht finden kann
Ruft man ganz laut nach Pimmelmann
Ich bin der Pimmelmann (Pimmelmann)
Wenn man mich nicht finden kann
Ruft man ganz laut nach Pimmelmann
Was ich aus meiner Tasche hol'
Sind Gummis meist und Allehol
Ich helfe gern bei Jung und Alt
Egal bei wem das Hymen knallt
Der Pimmelmann wird niemals geh'n
Sein Kumpel wird noch Jahre steh'n
Deinen Enkel wird er noch entzücken
Will er sich nach der Seife ... oh
05 Und Wieder (06:12)
Der letzte seemann hiЯt die segel
Die sonne brennt sich durch den wind
Nur ein vogel kennt die sehnsucht
Die ihm den kurs auf's weite gibt
Und wieder
Der letzte vogel spannt die flьgel
Vor der sonne schьtzt der wind
Nur ein seemann kennt die zukunft
Die der vogel selbst bestimmt
Und wieder
Doch wenn der sturm sich selbst durchlebt
Und jemand unsere zukunft falsch verdreht
Hiss die segel und sag nein
Sonst wirst du der letzte seemann sein
Und wieder schlдft das ganze land
(Hiss die segel - spann die flьgel)
Der letzte wдhler hat's bequem
Alle stьtzens eins system
Nur des einzeln bьrger mut
IдЯt ihn glauben ihm geht's gut
Und wieder schlдft das ganze land
Und wieder schlдft das ganze land
Doch wenn der wind sich drei mal dreht
Und jemand unser leben falsch vorlebt
Spann die flьgel und sag nein
Sonst hцrst du den letzten vogel schrein
(Hiss die segel - spann die flьgel)
07 Pray (04:25)
Maybe I'll just critizize,
Take people as they are,
Let me talk to you.
Have you ever seen a bird in heaven,
With folded hands?
Maybe these convictions,
Blinding day by day,
Let me bleed for you.
Breeding, feeding, hiding,
Suffering the day,
We don't have to pay the price,
So you just have to pray.
We don't have to pay the price,
So you just have to pray,
Over and over again,
Saving grace without your lies,
But wen don't have to pay the price,
Over and over again.
Maybe we should realize,
Religion is a leap in the dark,
Have you ever felt the pain of jesus,
We're partly to blame.
Breeding, feeding, hiding,
Suffering the day,
We don't have to pay the price,
So you just have to pray.
We don't have to pay the price,
So you just have to pray,
Over and over again,
Saving grace without your lies,
But wen don't have to pay the price,
Over and over again.
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