Feels like it was only yesterday when we praised “Good Lies,” the lead track from The Devil, You, + Me, the Notwist’s long-awaited followup to Neon Golden. Maybe because we haven’t stopped listening to it? The German quartet’s back again, this time with a video another newbie, “Where In This World.” Where in this world would we be without videos that have high-speed Wang Chung flicker action, you might ask. Nowhere, but nowhere. This new Notwist clip opens up like another one of those generic retreads, but quickly becomes an intriguing, woodsy narrative between a woman resembling Cate Blanchett with a smart haircut and her dude, who’s building a ramshackle flying machine.
It can be tough getting those things off the ground. Let’s eat canned beans. After they take off helicopter-style, go back and re-watch her opening violin-braining dream. See that? It becomes a great statement on their frustration, rather than another cheap video effect.
The Devil, You + Me is out in May in Europe via City Slang and in the US June 2008 via Domino.
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Fuckin weird video. Its kinda disappointing really. Why did they wait 5 years to release the same songs again, only all the down-tempo ones without the catchy hooks we loved from Neon Golden?
Even for Youtube, the quality on that video was terrible.
Also, Germans.
Bendetta,
I think this has less to do with them and more to do with the problems that a “crossover” band encounters. Plenty of people will agree with you because Neon Golden was a unique record for them, while they were blasting GBV and Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi” a record like this came out with some restraint. Now anyone who listens to the new record, not many of whom are fans of the genre but rather fans enticed by the novelty, will paste on exactly what you say, that they’ve “release[d] the same songs again, only all the down-tempo ones without the catchy hooks”