BEATSTEAKS - DETRACTORS (Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9L3s6EI4wg
"What connects us within the band is, among other things, that we all can't stay still for long," smiles singer and guitarist Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß. The new album is "as fidgety as each individual member of Beatsteaks is" — and "always a bit too much." This very aspect makes the new Beatsteaks album "Please" so youthful, so light-footed, so pulsating, so demanding: This record is at one hundred eighty, teetering, hammering, and clattering, constantly maintaining an electrifying tension. Somehow, this is not surprising, as "Please" unleashes a volcanic load of artistic ambition that has been building up for almost seven years — that's right, it's been that long since the last Beatsteaks studio album.
In this time, discussions have taken place, probably more than ever in the history of Beatsteaks — about creeping hierarchies, annoying quirks and mundane habits, demands, values, and the shared future. "During this dialogue, we realized how vast the cosmos is that we have gifted ourselves with the band... And how small the luxury problems are that occasionally occupy us," Arnim explains. The even more essential realization: "Our task is to bring something beautiful to people, to make them happy with our existence, our music... The world is already messed up enough."
Something beautiful must feel beautiful at its core and mature in a stress- and suspicion-free zone. For the sake of maximum lightness, Beatsteaks tidied up their space — and let in new wind. With Olaf Opal, who is considered one of the most skilled contemporary producers with his works straddling trippy underground and straight multi-platinum successes, they didn't go into the studio but rather into the audience area of the Berlin Columbia Theater. It was here that nearly twenty-five sketches transformed into eleven full-fledged album songs. Thomas Götz does not call Olaf Opal the "Master of Spaces" for nothing: The idea to record "Please" not in a studio or even in a rehearsal room, but in the epicenter of a huge, venerable hall, came from him. Today, it can be stated that the 'Theater Sound Experiment' was a stroke of genius: A room-filling, organically three-dimensional veil of reverb hangs over the entire album. At the same time, it is audible in each individual song — this is certainly also due to the changed conditions — that the band is excited. And that is, logically, always a good sign.
On stage, the quintet plays Champions League, and it has always been that way: Not only for this reason do they present "Please" directly on the release weekend at two major concerts in Berlin's Wuhlheide in front of over 30,000 people and subsequently with a large tour on the boards that not only mean the world to them but also give their music the right space to reveal itself and take shape in a musical happening, with which Beatsteaks have long since broken the framework of a classic rock concert and embarked on a new path.
""Please" by Beatsteaks will be released on June 28, 2024, on the newly founded label of the band, BeatRec, distributed by Warner Music. The first advance single "Detractors" will be released this Friday, April 19, 2024.
PLEASE – Tour 2024
June 24, 2024 Stuttgart, LKA Longhorn (Sold Out)
June 25, 2024 Hannover, Capitol (Sold Out)
June 28, 2024 Berlin, Wuhlheide
June 29, 2024 Berlin, Wuhlheide
September 21, 2024 CH-Rubingen, Mühle Hunziken (Sold Out)
September 22, 2024 CH-Zürich, Dynamo (Sold Out)
September 23, 2024 CH-Zürich, Dynamo
September 25, 2024 AT-Vienna, Arena Open Air (Sold Out)
September 26, 2024 Munich, Zenith
September 28, 2024 Bremen, Pier 2 (Sold Out)
September 29, 2024 Bielefeld, Lokschuppen (Sold Out)
October 1, 2024 Leipzig, Haus Auensee (Sold Out)
October 2, 2024 Offenbach, Stadthalle Offenbach (Sold Out)
October 4, 2024 Cologne, Palladium (Sold Out)
October 5, 2024 Hamburg, Edel-Optik-Arena (Sold Out)
presented by Visions and Diffus
Festivals 2024
August 8, 2024 - August 10, 2024 Püttlingen, Rocco del Schlacko
August 8, 2024 - August 11, 2024 Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Taubertal Festival
August 7, 2024 - August 11, 2024 Eschwege, Open Flair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9L3s6EI4wg
"What connects us within the band is, among other things, that we all can't stay still for long," smiles singer and guitarist Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß. The new album is "as fidgety as each individual member of Beatsteaks is" — and "always a bit too much." This very aspect makes the new Beatsteaks album "Please" so youthful, so light-footed, so pulsating, so demanding: This record is at one hundred eighty, teetering, hammering, and clattering, constantly maintaining an electrifying tension. Somehow, this is not surprising, as "Please" unleashes a volcanic load of artistic ambition that has been building up for almost seven years — that's right, it's been that long since the last Beatsteaks studio album.
In this time, discussions have taken place, probably more than ever in the history of Beatsteaks — about creeping hierarchies, annoying quirks and mundane habits, demands, values, and the shared future. "During this dialogue, we realized how vast the cosmos is that we have gifted ourselves with the band... And how small the luxury problems are that occasionally occupy us," Arnim explains. The even more essential realization: "Our task is to bring something beautiful to people, to make them happy with our existence, our music... The world is already messed up enough."
Something beautiful must feel beautiful at its core and mature in a stress- and suspicion-free zone. For the sake of maximum lightness, Beatsteaks tidied up their space — and let in new wind. With Olaf Opal, who is considered one of the most skilled contemporary producers with his works straddling trippy underground and straight multi-platinum successes, they didn't go into the studio but rather into the audience area of the Berlin Columbia Theater. It was here that nearly twenty-five sketches transformed into eleven full-fledged album songs. Thomas Götz does not call Olaf Opal the "Master of Spaces" for nothing: The idea to record "Please" not in a studio or even in a rehearsal room, but in the epicenter of a huge, venerable hall, came from him. Today, it can be stated that the 'Theater Sound Experiment' was a stroke of genius: A room-filling, organically three-dimensional veil of reverb hangs over the entire album. At the same time, it is audible in each individual song — this is certainly also due to the changed conditions — that the band is excited. And that is, logically, always a good sign.
On stage, the quintet plays Champions League, and it has always been that way: Not only for this reason do they present "Please" directly on the release weekend at two major concerts in Berlin's Wuhlheide in front of over 30,000 people and subsequently with a large tour on the boards that not only mean the world to them but also give their music the right space to reveal itself and take shape in a musical happening, with which Beatsteaks have long since broken the framework of a classic rock concert and embarked on a new path.
""Please" by Beatsteaks will be released on June 28, 2024, on the newly founded label of the band, BeatRec, distributed by Warner Music. The first advance single "Detractors" will be released this Friday, April 19, 2024.
PLEASE – Tour 2024
June 24, 2024 Stuttgart, LKA Longhorn (Sold Out)
June 25, 2024 Hannover, Capitol (Sold Out)
June 28, 2024 Berlin, Wuhlheide
June 29, 2024 Berlin, Wuhlheide
September 21, 2024 CH-Rubingen, Mühle Hunziken (Sold Out)
September 22, 2024 CH-Zürich, Dynamo (Sold Out)
September 23, 2024 CH-Zürich, Dynamo
September 25, 2024 AT-Vienna, Arena Open Air (Sold Out)
September 26, 2024 Munich, Zenith
September 28, 2024 Bremen, Pier 2 (Sold Out)
September 29, 2024 Bielefeld, Lokschuppen (Sold Out)
October 1, 2024 Leipzig, Haus Auensee (Sold Out)
October 2, 2024 Offenbach, Stadthalle Offenbach (Sold Out)
October 4, 2024 Cologne, Palladium (Sold Out)
October 5, 2024 Hamburg, Edel-Optik-Arena (Sold Out)
presented by Visions and Diffus
Festivals 2024
August 8, 2024 - August 10, 2024 Püttlingen, Rocco del Schlacko
August 8, 2024 - August 11, 2024 Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Taubertal Festival
August 7, 2024 - August 11, 2024 Eschwege, Open Flair
