180g / Green Vinyl. Again available on vinyl: the legendary 2005 album as double LP of the legendray german alternative rock group TOCOTRONIC. On their seventh Langspieler the Hamburgers sounded so direct and contoured, as rare before. "Pure reason must never be victorious" was given by Moses Schneider (among others Beatsteaks) within only Nine days and mixed by Michael Ilbert (Hives, Cardigans). The multi-faceted, however Stylistically balanced album awakened with its mixture of unfettered Toco folk, drifting pop- Melancholia and smoldering ballads a considerable interest of the media and stood for nine weeks in The German charts, where it advanced to the third place. Tino Lange wrote in the "Spiegel": "The three Hanseatas and her new guitarist Rick McPhail, who is from the USA, have now come out of the Nineties. The typical melange of cursed rhythms, emphasized abstract texts and Low-fidelity production - as a "Hamburg school" a firm term in the music business - was overboard thrown. Instead, the toocos move in lyrical sound and text fields with clearly audible A tendency to perfectionism. "The re-pressing is on green 180-gram vinyl.
