Die-Nerven guitarist Max Rieger intoxicated by drone wave.
Max Rieger considers Talk Talk’s album SPIRIT OF EDEN to be one of the best ever recorded. He’s of course absolutely right, and one could already assume that, because the approach of letting sound and text flow through, the musical envelopment in warm or disturbingly brightly colored sound coats, also seems to be part of his program All This Violence.
Rieger is currently THE jack of all trades in the German indie scene, if it even still exists. In addition to his successful band Die Nerve, he works tirelessly on productions for other artists, on releases from his two side bands and obviously also on himself. The new solo album lyrically marks his reflection on creative processes and creative crises. The ten tracks sound like loneliness and isolation, but they always open up sonically before breaking through their own wall of sound. Pads, choirs, entire orchestras spill over the room, the whole thing sounds dark and, fortunately, somehow unfashionable.
Born in 1993, he is an old soul. Sometimes perhaps a little too superficially wise (“Everything is just a transition”), at other times youthfully optimistic about what can still come for him (“So easy”), Rieger confidently locates himself in his very own cosmos. He has already found his tone and works without compromise. The album doesn’t leave you cold. His means are beauty and violence, sadness and love. Here you take a breath before it REALLY starts.