Track Listing

1. Never Be The Same
2. Shine
3. Stars
4. Einfeld
5. In Between The Years
6. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
7. Song About Hope, A
8. Medusa
9. Goodbye
10. For Good

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33006 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-10
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Ulrich's third album marks his first new release in four years. "An altogether lusher, more slouched, musical approach. The results have strong echoes of My Bloody Valentine or a turbo-charged Brian Eno..." - Music Week (May 2007). "A triumph of simplicity over pretension, of melody and harmony over pops and clicks and of the humane over the elusive" - Impose.

Amazon.com
Goodbye is not a farewell from German electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss, but it does mark the last in a trilogy that includes Far Away Trains Passing By and A Strangely Isolated Place. Both are landmark albums of melodically ecstatic electronica, and Goodbye flows from their digital loins. Tracks like "Never Be the Same" and "In Between the Years" share the same surging rhythms, heroic electronic melodies, and jangly shoe-gazer guitars heard on the earlier discs. A slight tweak on Goodbye is the shift toward more overt vocal tracks as opposed to the textural, chanting choruses Schnauss has always employed. Rob McVey, the singer from Longview, intones the epic strains of "Shine," while "Stars" places singer Judith Beck deep in echoes, singing like a delay-drenched, surf-music dervish. In fact, "delayed," "drenched," and "dervish" pretty much sum up Goodbye. Schnauss piles on effects and layers in a psychedelic melee that would leave Ozric Tentacles and Pink Floyd standing transfixed by his stroboscopic strategies. Unlike on his previous CDs, Schnauss doesn't let you get comfortable. Reverb-smeared vocals, feedback-oscillated synthesizers, and raging guitars of destruction crush through on tracks like "Medusa." But there are also moments of sublime beauty and the kind of haunting melodies that have made Schnauss a favorite for chill-out soundtracks of the imagination. Ice crystals glisten on the branches of "Einfeld" and the deliriously euphoric "Goodbye" simply lifts you higher, in a spiritual way. It may be goodbye to this era of Ulrich Schnauss, but it promises many happy returns. --John Diliberto

Customer Reviews

Moving from the dark side to the light
I am so grateful to have found this album after a long search for new music with meaning! Not alot can be said for Ulrich Schnauss that other reviewers have not already said, But... this is really, really, REALLY good music and when i listen to it, it really stretches me energetically.

There is a real balance with this album. The slower pieces form a perfect symbiosis with the ecstatic highs. It really aids in repeative playing.

Other reviewers have commented on the delayed effects and echo, static etc in some tracks. My personal feeling about it - the intentional work of a genius!

Strangley Isolated places is the next on my ordering list!

Schnauss fizzles out?
Ulrich Schnauss's previous albums "A Strangely Isolated Place" and "Far Away Trains Passing By" are as good as it gets for this type of music, masterfully balancing the up-beat & ecstatically joyful with the poignant (depressive). By comparison "Goodbye" falls short, sounding mostly murky--with minor-mode harmonies and far too many Enya-inspired whispering vocals. A weariness and defeatism permeates most tracks. For someone who likes mostly classical that's not good enough to inspire repeated listening. Let's hope for more like the first two albums, which are in their own--transcendentally beautiful-- class.

Nice..
Well structured, lush and melodic; sort of in the vein of 'My Bloody Valentine'. Very nice production. Recommended.