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Calvin Harris

18 Months (2012)

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18 Months ist das dritte Studioalbum des schottischen DJs und Produzenten Calvin Harris, das am 26. Oktober 2012 über Deconstruction, Fly Eye und Columbia Records veröffentlicht wurde. Mit einer Laufzeit von 49:47 Minuten umfasst das Album 15 Tracks und markiert einen stilistischen Übergang von Harris' früherem Nu-Disco-Stil hin zu einem stärker von Electro-House geprägten Sound. Das Album enthält neun Singles, darunter „Bounce“ (feat. Kelis), „Feel So Close“, „Let's Go“ (feat. Ne-Yo), „We'll Be Coming Back“ (feat. Example), „Sweet Nothing“ (feat. Florence Welch), „Drinking from the Bottle“ (feat. Tinie Tempah), „I Need Your Love“ (feat. Ellie Goulding), „Thinking About You“ (feat. Ayah Marar) und „We Found Love“ (feat. Rihanna). Alle diese Singles erreichten die Top 10 der UK Singles Chart, was 18 Months zum ersten Album in der Geschichte machte, das neun Top-10-Singles in Großbritannien hervorbrachte. Kritiker lobten die Produktion und die eingängigen Melodien des Albums, wobei insbesondere die Zusammenarbeit mit Florence Welch auf „Sweet Nothing“ hervorgehoben wurde. Einige Rezensenten bemängelten jedoch eine gewisse Homogenität im Sound und eine mangelnde Innovation im Vergleich zu Harris' früheren Arbeiten. Kommerziell war 18 Months ein großer Erfolg: Es debütierte auf Platz 1 der UK Albums Chart und verkaufte sich bis Juli 2017 über 923.000 Mal im Vereinigten Königreich. In den USA erreichte das Album Platz 19 der Billboard 200 und Platz 1 der Dance/Electronic Albums Chart. Mit 18 Months etablierte sich Calvin Harris als einer der führenden Produzenten im Bereich der elektronischen Tanzmusik und prägte maßgeblich den Sound des Mainstream-Pop der 2010er Jahre.
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If ever there was an album (greatest hits excepted) that could claim to be a winner before a single copy was sold, it’s this one. Six singles released already, counting Rihanna’s We Found Love: six worldwide hits, any one of which you can hear by just by turning on a radio. That’s better than Thriller. And they’re all in the key of ruthless triumph, where even the flats are sharp. How can it fail?

Well it depends on your expectations. Of the nine songs that aren’t singles already, four are cut from the same cloth as the hits: each one desperately vying to be the tune you most want to be dancing to when the realisation hits that you’re out, the night is young, and everything is brilliant.

It’s a noble undertaking, and one Calvin Harris clearly takes very seriously, no matter who he is working with. So line up, Ellie Goulding, c’mere Tinie Tempah, you want a certified Harris club banger to go? With relish? You’ve come to the right place.

Then there are the makeweights – Green Valley, Mansion, School – the leftover riffs and ideas that never quite got finished off and have clearly been thrown in as some kind of light relief amid all of the breathless urgency. School is the real oddity, a half-hearted and airless stab at G-funk, and a throwback to Calvin’s pre-Olympian past, but at least it’s an attempt to go somewhere else. The other two are just commas, a chance to breathe.

Only on Here 2 China is there a worthy variation on the formula, the sense of a producer stretching out to meet the needs of his vocalist. Dizzee Rascal, who already had his Harris makeover a while back, is the lucky recipient of a total bassquake. No whooshing, no builds, no drops, just a re-energised rapper delighted with the great big dirty fartcake he’s been given to work with.

So yes, it’s a portfolio of win for Calvin, an annual report where the graph is almost all peaks and the troughs are so far down they’re practically invisible. Champagne?


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