While the world is discussing whether the AI can soon reproduce the last human USP and develop feelings, Stefanie Schrank sometimes slips into the emotional constitution of a machine: “My matter vibrates and collapses my system.” Conclusion: Bits and bytes can become quite “restless”, but even if cabinet with their second album Forma is thinking beyond the power plant, human-machine, it is far from clear where the journey is going.
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The visual artist and musician who otherwise also plays bass at the Cologne-Band Locas in Love, aesthetics of the electronic dance floor, adapted a possible future-and at the same time also express a future as to whether there will be a future: “ Are infinite many solutions – or not a solution. “
For a long time, this doubt no longer comes as stiff as under the skin, an overheated machine, your album debut from 2019, or much less gruff than the EP battle cries FRG from last year. Gentle the beats, elegant synths of synths cut through the room, while Stefanie Schrank sings a little too unexpectedly: “Morphing all the time, tomorrow we are like new.” Or disappeared. We are excited.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 10/2025.