Sehnsucht is the tenth album by the German gothic rock duo

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, released on 8 May 2009. Singer and producer

Tilo Wolff Tilo Wolff (born 10 July 1972) is a German musician and artist. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and currently lives in Switzerland. His longest-running project is the band Lacrimosa, which since its debut in 1990 has produced 11 albums. The b ...

wanted to create an album that was less conceptual and more spontaneous than the previous releases by Lacrimosa. Therefore, ''Sehnsucht'' features a great variability of musical expressions like a sarcastic track "Feuer" and the tender song "Call Me With The Voice Of Love". The planned release of a

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format album was cancelled shortly before the final release of ''Sehnsucht''.

Reception

In a positive review the German ''Sonic Seducer'' magazine lauded the freshness of the songs as well as singer

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's facetted and self-confident vocals, while the ''Side-Line'' magazine did not discover much new material in the album and compared the sound of "I Lost My Star in Krasnodar" to

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. However, the author awarded five out of six points. The ''

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'' online magazine complained about the lack of quality in Wolff's singing and about weak lyrics but at the same time made very positive statements about his skills in arranging classical elements, Hard rock and Metal.

Track listing

Special edition

There is also a "Special edition", released at the same time, with the same tracks but re-recorded with slight variations. The special version is also the first Lacrimosa album with a full color cover (The Echoes digipak had a sepia cover).

Charts

References

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