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Tokio Hotel - Humanoid
| Allmusic |
| Eyeliner-heavy, German teen pop quartet Tokio Hotel's third (and second English language) full-length album is a significantly louder and considerably darker affair than their previous outings. While there's little doubt that screaming teenage girls will still stand front and center at the foot of the stage, the band has set its sights on the "First Person Shooter" male demographic this time around, baiting the hook with enough generic sci-fi imagery and Depeche Mode-meets-Fall Out Boy melodrama to fuel one hundred angry bike rides home from work. That's not to say that the results aren't effective, as Humanoid, though predictable and generally harmless, is immaculately crafted, thanks in part to longtime producer David Jost and a handful of A-list engineers. Between the Auto-Tune heavy first single "Automatic" and the Arcade Fire-lite stadium anthem "World Behind My Wall," one can almost envision the elaborate stage show being planned for the next MTV video music awards, and while Tokio Hotel may not have matured enough to hang with the big boys yet, they are most certainly the dark horses pacing up and down the Disney fringe....full text |
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| Billboard |
| It's probably unwise to assume that "Darkside of the Sun," the second track from the German band Tokio Hotel's second international set, "Humanoid," references the famous Pink Floyd album with which it almost shares a title. After all, little about Tokio Hotel suggests the group's young members feel any connection to the classic rock canon. Led by elaborate-haired frontman Bill Kaulitz, the band looks to Depeche Mode the way guitar groups regard Led Zeppelin. With its whirring synth riffs ("Noise"), pumping arena-emo grooves ("Pain of Love") and liberal use of Auto-Tune ("Hey You"), "Humanoid" is no less appealingly shiny than its 2007 stateside debut, "Scream." But with the exception of the song "Automatic," an instantly catchy chunk of bubble-grunge perfection, it does have fewer killer melodies, which allows more of your brain to focus on Kaulitz's lyrics. That's a dubious advantage: The song "Dogs Unleashed" sounds an awful lot like he's singing, "We are dogs in heat." --Mikael Wood...full text |
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| First they got Europe's tweens squealing, then Tokio Hotel crossed the Atlantic and repeated the feat here, though on a significantly smaller scale. On Humanoid, their second English-language effort, the glammy Germans stick to their strengths, such as they are, piling tons of stadium-ready production on top of the band's strenuously enunciated yowling and industrial synth and guitar riffs. The album's title might be more appropriate than they realize: This music doesn't particularly sound like it was created by human beings, but it's no doubt close enough for their many fans...full text |
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| First they got Europe's tweens squealing, then Tokio Hotel crossed the Atlantic and repeated the feat here, though on a significantly smaller scale. On Humanoid, their second English-language effort, the glammy Germans stick to their strengths, such as they are, piling tons of stadium-ready production on top of the band's strenuously enunciated yowling and industrial synth and guitar riffs. The album's title might be more appropriate than they realize: This music doesn't particularly sound like it was created by human beings, but it's no doubt close enough for their many fans...full text |
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