''Konturen'' ( ''Contours'') is the sixth studio album by German singer-songwriter
Johannes Oerding
Johannes Oerding (born 26 December 1981) is a German singer-songwriter.
Early life
Oerding was born in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia and raised in Geldern-Kapellen near the border of the Netherlands. His father is a country doctor, while h ...
. It was released through
Columbia Records on 8 November 2019. It debuted atop the
German Albums Chart
The GfK Entertainment charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustr ...
, becoming Oerding's first number-one album in Germany. It was supported by the single "An guten Tagen".
Background
Oerding named the album ''Konturen'' (''Contours'') after a line in the song "Alles okay": "Und dieser Dreck auf meiner Haut ist mir endlich so vertraut. Denn diese Spuren und Konturen machen mich aus" ("And this dirt on my skin is finally so familiar to me, because these traces and contours make me"). Oerding said that with his sixth album, he wanted to find his own "profile more and more".
Oerding recorded "Ich hab dich nicht mehr zu verlieren" with singer
Ina Müller, his girlfriend of 10 years. Oerding remarked that if the topic of the song were not separation, "I would not have done it, everything else I would have found extremely cheesy".
Critical reception
''Konturen'' received generally mixed reviews from
music critics
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. ''Musicheadquarters Andy called the album the singer's best effort to date, alongside ''
Kreise''.
The website ''Mix1'' praised the album for documenting a "maturation process" by returning to the singer's roots.
In a negative review, Tony Henning of ''
laut.de
laut.de is a German online magazine dealing exclusively with entertainment music, especially pop music, rock music, alternative, metal, hip-hop, jazz and techno. It comprises record reviews, interviews, biographies of important artists, music ...
'' pointed out that the songs are characterized by a high level of "penetrance and pettiness" and that the record "hits the listener where it hurts the most, namely his ears".
Pascal Bremmer of ''Plattentests'' described the songs as "chumming up" and that the music would fully satisfy mainstream radio listeners in its "naïvety".
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
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2019 albums
German-language albums
Johannes Oerding albums