SALÒ
Photo: Vanessa Kügerl. All rights reserved.
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According to SALÒ, they make music for “dog pets, people who refuse to work and everyone who has other feelings”. If you can’t imagine what that means at first, you should know that the sound of the whole thing falls somewhere in the aesthetics of post-punk and poppy synths. His new single is correspondingly punky. Matching the Friday release, “Apollonia is sitting at the cash register at Edeka” comes out with a video release.
The idea for the song came from SALÒ in Berlin’s “Clash”. Among Berliners, the alternative bar in Kreuzberg is best known for its punk charm. There, SALÒ was talking to some friends from the band LEOPARD about the titles of some German punk songs – when suddenly his girlfriend called someone named Apollonia. Totally flashed by the name, the idea for the song “Apollonia sits at Edeka at the cash register” was born. Some might be wondering now – “Kassa” – is there a spelling mistake in the title? Far from it, because in Austria the cash register is called “Kassa”. The band and SALÒ loved the idea of how fun and beautiful it would be “if someone named Apollonia was at the cash register at Edeka, right?”
The mallard lover, as he writes on Instagram, is called Andreas Binder and originally comes from southern Styria. The musician made his debut with his EP TRÄNEN ZU WEIN in 2020. A next EP entitled RABATT is already being planned and will be released this year. The musician is also under contract with the Austrian label “Mom I Made It”. Since then, several features have followed, including “Hot Lead” with his label colleague Eli Preiss. However, some of you may have encountered SALÒ’s single “Bonjour Tristesse” for the first time. This was released in 2021 and is about the melancholy of life.
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