Falling asleep on the platform, “booze and emptiness”, dripping taps, waiting for hours, loss of control. What you can definitely learn when you listen to Lyschko: In Solingen, things are no different than in any other shitty German city. But that’s not really what the trio’s debut album is about, it’s about more existential things, the suffering that only youth can suffer.
While the guitars sing and cheer as if they weren’t the most old-fashioned instrument in the world, Lina Holzrichter sings about how she finally wants to feel something right, but that something always doesn’t feel right. Euphoric pop-punk morphs into cutting-edge new wave, desperate post-punk, and back again across the ’90s, but retro is just a word here.
“I always want more, until I tear it apart,” Holzrichter actually sings, flipping over and squeaking like Annette Humpe once did in Ideal, without it being embarrassing, and: “I try not to be wrong.” Hasn’t been for a long time someone so poignantly sets lostness to music, the beautiful misery of fresh adulthood, the fashionable loneliness in the midst of the crowd. Exactly: “It’s always about everything, it’s always about nothing.”
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