'25-year-old German is startlingly talented. His debut album as Get Well Soon is an ambitious and omaginatively arranged mix of exultant Motown pop, electronica, soundtracks and noir-ish alt. rock. Fans of the Arcade Fire, The National and Radiohead will faint clean away. UNCUT (4 Stars)
In other words, it's a provocative, opaque, boldly dramatic labyrinth of an album and you'd be a fool not to dive right in' THE FLY (4,5 Stars)
‘Rest Now..’ is a bold and beautiful collection of songs. Gropper has crafted an album on par with the ambitious sonic adventuring usually favoured by the likes of Sufjan Stevens or Patrick Wolf, fellow sonic visionaries who Get Well Soon deserve to be mentioned amongst' CLASH MAGAZINE
Germany
"Ein pastorales Stück Indie-Unvergänglichkeit. Es ist Musik, die dein Leben klangvoller macht, nicht nur für die überbordend schönen 60 Minuten dieser CD"
Album des Monats (Januar 2008)
MUSIKEXPRESS
"Schon der erste weltbewegende Chor des Präludiums reißt alles mit und lässt erst zur Coda wieder los. Das ist opulent und formvollendet und ein kleines bisschen paranoid." Album des Monats (Januar 08) VISIONS
"Get Well Soon macht sich stark für einen Pop von quasi-symphonischen Ausmaßen. In Kitsch verfällt er aber nie." SPEX
"Ein beeindruckend souveränes Debüt. Die Arrangements sind tatsächlich atemberaubend." Rolling Stone
Welcome to the weekend, madame & sir
this is the second VEXATIONS video, this time: the brass section playing against the winter in the third track "WE ARE FREE" of GET WELL SOON's upcoming album. To be released on the 8th of January 2010.
Good evening Madam and Sir.
We made exactly seven little videos, showing Konstantin alias GET WELL SOON and other musicians in the process of making the new Album VEXATIONS which is going to be released europewide on the 8th of January 2010.
This is the first clip. Field Recordings. The musician that plays here is our friend the forest behind Konstantin's parents house, which has the honour of opening VEXATIONS.
We are very thrilled about the following GET WELL SOON album to "Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon" which is called VEXATIONS.
It turned out so wonderful, watch this space for further clips and music.
Rest Now, Weary Head is the first album of the band of Konstantin Gropper. Here, he invites us to lean back for a while and close our eyes. Wounds are being bandaged, scars counted. - Breathe - Meanwhile, his music is wandering. Timelessly it roams about in genres: folk and electro are walking hand in hand, classical music is sketching the distant horizon - a faint memory of long gone eras - hook lines of pop music are lying at the wayside, waiting to be touched with the slightest irony. Konstantin has assembled his strongest pieces of three years of work on one album: here they shine with the melancholy and the gloom of those, who have gained peace and hope as they have left the eternal dance around a golden calf named progress: Take this hand now / there is no time to waste / the first gets the land / where we need to build our home / Quiet people build the hardest gold. The art of Konstantin concentrates in his ability to elude classification, to forge Get Well Soon anew with every single song. Glinting through are memories of sad ballads of Leonard Cohen; broken groans of Tom Waits; the laisser faire of the lost of Nick Cave, and the weightlessness of Thom Yorke..
Wir sind schon alle in freudigster Erwartung neuer Songs. Ist ja fast wie das Warten aufs Christkind... Apropos - spielt ihr dieses Jahr keine weihnachts-Gigs? Schade..aber es ist ja nicht mehr lang hin!
Oooooh! Was les ich da?? Neues Album am 08. Januar....!?! Großartig, ich kann's nicht erwarten!!! :-)))
Ich hoffe, Ihr macht dann auch wieder eine kleine feine (oder auch große fette) Tour, welche Euch wieder ins schöne Bremen führt?! Dann würdet Ihr eine schwangere Frau noch glücklicher machen...!! ;-)
Viele liebe Grüße & alles Gute für die neue Platte Svenja
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