Albums
Storm (Sturm)
2009
Release Date: 2009
By Brian Howe
Reviewed January 25, 2010
Beloved German band releases a soundtrack record so generic that selling it as a Notwist record feels faintly deceitful.
It's only fair to cut film scores some slack and judge them as non-canonical diversions. They're dependent on missing imagery, and often released mainly as advertisements for the films. But when a beloved band's name is on the cover, we can't help but feel as if we're being promised a little more-- that the release has an aesthetic motivation beyond the promotional. If Hans-Christian Schmid's film, , has fans, then perhaps this score will be useful to them. But it will do little for any but the most adoringly blinkered Notwist fans. It's so thin and generic that selling it as a Notwist record feels faintly deceitful, as it could be by anybody, for any moody indie film.