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Goodbye | 
 enlarge | Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
Label: Domino
Category: Music
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 14716
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 149
UPC: 801390014925
EAN: 0801390014925
ASIN: B000RGSOOG
Release Date: July 10, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Never Be The Same | | • | Shine | | • | Stars | | • | Einfeld | | • | In Between The Years | | • | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | | • | Song About Hope, A | | • | Medusa | | • | Goodbye | | • | For Good |
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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
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Ulrich's Shoegazer Album October 2, 2008
A lot of reviewer's totally missed the point of this album. Yes, it's more rock and guitar oriented than his first two albums, but that's the point. As Ulrich Schnauss's electronic albums have always been heavily influenced by bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Ride, Lush and The Cocteau Twins, this time he pays literal homage to the genre by basically recreating a rock album electronically. The results are layer upon layer of sound, that for some will take a while to fully emerge. Give this album a chance, and you will see the depth of its beauty. IMO, Ulrich can do no wrong. Also check out the excellent remixes he has done for other artists.
 Schnauss fizzles out? March 6, 2008
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.. January 28, 2008
Well structured, lush and melodic; sort of in the vein of 'My Bloody Valentine'. Very nice production. Recommended.
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye January 18, 2008
Excellent followup to Far Away Trains Passing By. Completes the series.
If you are a fan, you won't be disappointed.
Great! January 14, 2008
As with all Ulrich Schauss music, this is excellent. But it does not live up to the high quality of Far Away Train Passing By. If you like this type of music however, you should own this album.
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