“Everybody Hurts” once sang Rem and stood on cars. “Everybody Drives” sings Linnea Mårtsson from Matching Outfits before the pain falls over her: Ditch me, the second album of the Berlin trio, is about a separation of the one -sided and abrupt variety. The (still) loved one brings toilet paper from the supermarket, which has to be used a little later to clean the nose (“toilet paper”).
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And Mårtenson’s mother fails to delete the ex from the funeral notice for the grandmother (“Obitual”). The Swede documents the emotional stages of their abandoning-from shock rigid and despair to defective and anger to the sobering re-entry into the dating game-with fearless, sometimes tragicomic detail, which unfolds a wonderfully lifelike poetry.
The music is also undetected: Reduced, jerky-played indie pop with piano, who whistles on today’s perfection madness and prefers to depend on LO-FI heroes like Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis. The latter is even quoted: “A Heartbreak is just a hangover of the heart.” Also a beautiful sentence.
This review was first published in the MusikExpress 08/2025.