Drangsal - Harieschaim (2016)

Nobody has the sound of New Wave, Post Punk or Dark Wave added that. True highlights the sometimes oh so colorless indie pop landscape of Germany. Next. Big. Thing! A debut album that leaves you speechless. Album of the Month Max Gruber's tribulations with human and artistic figure are so nervous that they merge in their restlessness. Max barely sleeps, works tirelessly on his music, on the day and at night. He does not dream, but his days are saturated with fantasies. "Be nice to us, we are still children" solicits the equally delicate as brutally strung Mastermind into the microphone. The concert is sold out - and the people are not only loving, they're euphoric! Although there is so far only heard a few demos. This young man has an appeal that much is clear, its nature promises spectacle, his appearance considers it a.

Harieschaim, the first album of the 22-year-old, is a dense succession of quick, excited pop songs - say: Popwunder? -, No respite, the reference decade 80s is exhausted and broken. Harieschaim today Herxheim, also a strange village, Max's birth is, strictly speaking. Nowhere else in Germany has so long been cannibalism in nearby Hinterkaifeck an entire extended family in 1922 was murdered, of course, a distant relative of Max's pedigree. But in Herxheim all began: His father was there innkeeper, took mixtapes for the pub, they played his boys in the car before. The child fell so very often the English music that henceforth expressed bilingual. A pop-cultural childhood. With 5 years Max looked with his parents MTV, lost in Marylin Manson The Dope Show. From then on he knew: I also want to somehow be something. A Weirdo. At the latest at puberty, he noted, in any case to be one. One could also say, however: a character! Now it was time for the young Resolute to find forms for its diffuse nature. And in an ultra-Catholic bei Landau! Max went through a hard school ". Either I let myself beat up at the break, or I Lacquer my fingernails in a still more striking color" This school has in any case his art not harmed, nor his autodidactic learning process: "knew with 14 I then: if I want to make music, I have to learn the "And no matter what he did, for Herxheim it was too crass.. So off because: in Landau he befriends in her early days with Sizarr on, it's all about Mannheim to Leipzig and Berlin, always looking for a phrase. Breakfast he met the later hit producer Markus Ganter. That's because even still an unknown quantity, but Max decides: with whom I will work later. A few years later, Ganter calls him: Do we want to make your album now? Max unlocks.

It starts. Since his first songs Max is doing, a protege of Ganters Erlkönig, Benjamin Griffey aka Casper. Max has a lot to thank him. Although in this biography sometimes talk of addition may be, it is quite troubled, has left its mark. For example, on-drawn tattoos skin, which tells of Max's obsession against eccentric Industrial protagonists or the Abseitigen per se. Here we find a soul that knows the dark! So it is quite remarkable how catchy, cosmopolitan and friendly come along the ten songs on Hariescheim. One might even say in the music of Max Gruber crossed several contradictions! And if there is so much abyss why one thinks then listening, Max wanted to embrace the whole world? "If I did what goes in to tell me, on the road, I had problems - but when I sing it, people dance. And at the end of the day I want people just prefer to give something over which they can look forward to, as it causing any harm. be that I find a nice thought, "How in the idea of ​​Wolpert Ingers, after he has named a song, works - As if I put all the bad in a tube and at the other end comes out something that people like it. principle: All that he wants to be, and yet can not mean (because there are not that), he takes apart, it is composed, formed it to and is this being who carries the contradiction not only in itself, but proudly pointing outwards. Then Max tumbles even a sentence from the mouth that says just about everything: "Music is often a substitute for tears, I want at the end but rather laugh than cry" His music - from youth rooms to the big stages - invites. join it. And so Max Gruber finds to life and his music to the world!

TRACKLIST

01. Allan Align
02. Der Ingrimm
03. Will ich nur dich
04. Hinterkaifeck
05. Do The Dominance
06. Moritzzwinger
07. Love Me Or Leave Me Alone
08. Schutter
09. Sliced Bread #2
10. Wolpertinger
11. Hertzberg (2013 Version)
12. Goler Teal
13. Allan AliGN (Demo)
14. Wolpertinger (Demo)
15. I Thank You HAVE A Brother