Miley Cyrus fights for her freedom, Blond clears everything up, Element of Crime lets the art speak for itself and we bring you the 50 best comeback albums – these and other topics in the now published Musikexpress 05/2023.
To start with, as always, our “making of” from the print product advertised here:
WHY DON’T YOU COME BACK? JUST HURRY!
It’s just us here: Not every comeback inspires equally, right? Some reissues have more of a Stephen King vibe. After all, the style-defining horror author also likes to resurrect: In the short story “Sometimes they come back” a handful of hooligans return after years of absence – one does not suspect anything good. And, of course, they are soulless undead who want to drag their contemporaries to hell. Similar to “Stuffed Animal Graveyard” – only without the fur.
Well, it may not be quite as dramatic in music, but here, too, it is not just gold ducats that are washed up by the incessantly surging tide of returnees. So this is an issue filled with all the good comebacks: which one has something to add to the (own) art? Where did it really start after that? Which revenants would you never want to be without? Instead of Stephen King, it’s better to quote Paul Young at the beginning, because he once sang “Come back and stay for good this time”. Exactly. Where have you all been at for so long!
The Musikexpress 05/2023 – the topics at a glance:
MY OH MY MILEY!
Miley at 30: Ten years after her biggest hit and sensational twerking performances, the former teen star is making a larger-than-life comeback to the top of the charts. Before the eyes of the world public she has grown up. Their new record ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION pays homage to the endless Californian summer. And a flawless pop album where she reflects on the possibilities of love and freedom.
50 Comeback Albums – Back for very good
Ten years after Wrecking Ball, Miley Cyrus is dominating the charts again. Seven years after their last album, Metallica hit us again. Everything But The Girl took 24 years to come back. It was six years with Fever Ray – “only”, although that’s, for example, two years more than the entire (seven) recording career of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Spring is not returning this May, but also a much-missed population of our pop planet. We take this as an opportunity to choose the 50 best comeback albums. Conditions of participation: first record after Split or at least ten years after the predecessor.
Blond: “We giggled to death”
Justin Bieber has his “Beliebers”, Lady Gaga her “little monsters” – the trio BLOND from Chemnitz calls their own fans “Blondinators” and with their second album PERLEN they focus on anthemic pop for dancing, cuddling and driving away mackerel.
Everything But The Girl – Narcissism and modesty
A quarter of a century ago, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt put their duo EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL on hold, at a time when, after a long wait, it was finally a matter of commercial success. Now the two return, sans reunion fanfare and grand gestures, but with FUSE, an album that encapsulates what Everything But The Girl is like today, gray hair and reading glasses included.
Element of Crime: “People should like the songs!”
With an audible joy of playing, Jakob Ilja, Richard Pappik and Sven Regener refine and condense the typical element of crime sound on MORGENS AT FOUR. The first album without the late bassist and producer David Young, there is a dedication and spaciousness that comes from the ideal blend of routine and passion. We met Regener and Pappik in Berlin-Mitte.
Caroline Rose – Longing for the Uterus
While CAROLINE ROSE was recording her fifth record THE ART OF FORGETTING, one crisis followed the next in her life. Consequently, their album deals with forgetting: suppressing and losing memories – but also healing processing.
ME heroes: Metallica – The band of misfits and freaks
They are the Rolling Stones of heavy metal: active for over 40 years, a lucrative and well-oiled live machine, long since arrived in the era of estate administration. Nevertheless, Metallica – Napster and Netfix or not – have always remained the band of people who have never belonged to the “cool kids” in the schoolyard or at work. About a band that has gathered an army of misfits from all over the world.
Also in the issue:
- Self-timer: Tristan Brusch
- Topic interview: Fatoni on the intergenerational contract in rap
- Fenne Lily
- Record cabinet: Ellie Goulding
- Radar: Verified & Lie Ning
- CD insert for subscribers with Steiner & Madlaina, Indigo De Souza, Braids, Lael Neale, LA Priest & Jungstötter
- Digital Playlist featuring Steiner & Madlaina, Indigo De Souza, Braids, Lael Neale, LA Priest, Jungstötter, Lie Ning, Majan, Verified, Miley Cyrus, 100 Gecs, Blond, Feist, Fenne Lily & Lana del Rey
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