Scream by Tokio Hotel

Scream is Tokio Hotel's first run at an album in English, the third studio record overall from the German band, and it's less a fresh start than a translation job. Bill Kaulitz sings English versions of songs from the group's two German albums: eight come from Zimmer 483 and the other four from Schrei, the debut whose name this title simply puts into English. In German-speaking countries the same record went out as Room 483 instead, with Cherrytree, Island and Interscope handling the release.

The lead single was "Monsoon", pointedly not the clunky word-for-word rendering of "Durch den Monsun". Behind Bill, Tom Kaulitz's guitar, Georg Listing's bass and Gustav Schäfer's drums pile up big, glossy alt-rock, all swooping choruses and wide-screen melodrama, built to make the leap across the language barrier in one go.

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