Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
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Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon is the debut album by the German Indie rock
band Get Well Soon
released on January 4, 2008 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the City Slang record label, in UK and Ireland in June 2008 on Nude and in France in September that year.
The album took three years to produce and was met with mainly positive reviews from most German music magazines. The lyrics were pointed out as a particular strength for their often philosophical and cynical nature. In the UK, NME
, Uncut
and The Guardian
, amongst others, highly rated the album.
The album entered the German Album Charts at 28 and the resulting tour consisting of 19 almost completely sold out shows secured the tour as the most successful newcomer tour in Germany for 2008.
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band Get Well Soon
Get Well Soon (band)
Get Well Soon is a music and band project of the German singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper ....
released on January 4, 2008 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the City Slang record label, in UK and Ireland in June 2008 on Nude and in France in September that year.
The album took three years to produce and was met with mainly positive reviews from most German music magazines. The lyrics were pointed out as a particular strength for their often philosophical and cynical nature. In the UK, NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
, Uncut
UNCUT (magazine)
Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
and The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, amongst others, highly rated the album.
The album entered the German Album Charts at 28 and the resulting tour consisting of 19 almost completely sold out shows secured the tour as the most successful newcomer tour in Germany for 2008.
Tracklisting
- Prelude
- You/Aurora/You/Seaside
- Christmas In Adventure Parks
- People Magazine Front Cover
- If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting
- Help To Prevent Forest Fires
- I Sold My Hands For Food So Please Feed Me
- We Are Safe Inside While They Burn Down Our House
- Born Slippy (Nuxx)
- Your Endless Dream
- Witches! Witches! Rest Now In The Fire
- Tick Tack! Goes My Automatic Heart
- Lost In The Mountains (Of The Heart)
- Coda