German lyrics, at the same time poetic without slogans and political without slogans, sung as if through bared teeth and at the same time full of tenderness, it doesn’t sound like it would go well, let alone work at all. But yes: Sophie Löw has already achieved this astonishment as a singer in the band Culk, as Sophia Blenda she composes entirely alone and primarily on the piano.
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DIE NEUE HEERERKEIT lets the piano chords flicker from near and the strings from far away. In addition, the texts tell very fragmentary of subjective derangements, but provide precise food for thought. This is how Löw creates her very own sound art. No artificially polished affirmation pop, but one that faces the resonance of the empty inner space and does not spare the outer space by fading it out.
Gloomy chamber pop, for which melancholy is not a retro-fetish leftover from the pre-Internet era, but a necessary ingredient for well-thought-out lines about the now. Intimacy Reconstruction Pop. DIE NEUE HEERNEIT should please everyone take to heart (and listen up and down).
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