On this new album LAI managed the great success, indeed. Finally provided with a really transparent and powerful production, this time every song works out very well.
In doing so, their proven conception of not having any is going up in marvelous way: this release has club-suitable crushers from hell, the quieter tracks are wonderfully longing and sad and the electro-pop songs really sparkle out of the speakers. There was an earlier feeling the songs would miss something sometimes and this impressions does not even arise on Dann habe ich umsonst gelebt. On the contrary, every song sounds matured and sophisticated without to being overloaded and fabricated. Likewise contributing to this good impression is the significantly improved singing, above all Sonja Kirchberger who surprises and convinces with some unexpected variants and an extended voice volume.
So you will get a varied and homogeneous album though, with highlights like Judgement, Voiceless, Forgive Me and the classically interpreted Dead Actor’s Requiem. As bonus you will also find the succeeded acoustic version of the most known LAI song Life Will Never Be The Same Again, where Sean Brennan (London After Midnight) fortunately tries not to make a bad impression. As if this kind of hokum would be necessary …