Bad Moon
No Me Mires
Singer and lyricist Joerg Willerscheidt has never been able to sing (well) about happy things. On NO ME MIRES, he, as the protagonist of the ten songs, enters the isolation of a fictional sanatoriumand largely fails. And yet, it seems as if the dark, captivating sound of the band, featuring Andreas Brychcy, Bernhard Schrader, Frank Hunold, and Jens Munzert, can translate precisely this atmosphere into the album's music like never before. Cut it out, the over-the-top Tics and the epically dramatic All those edges, for example, revolve around the separation of spirit and person and, in anticipation of the album's final album, Here comes the dark, seem like a restless pendulum that one would rather wish stood still than swung. In the stirring Go Ahead, Willerscheidt's voice fluctuates so wildly as if he wanted to create an acoustic monument to all uncertainty, to hopelessness. And yet, cooling bass lines and walls of guitar reminiscent of early 90s indie rock repeatedly break into the predominantly dark-hued songs like wonderfully emotional flashes of light. With the driving, almost pop-inspired Green Stage, the dreamy Dreamshow and, last but not least, the wavering Backdrop, reminiscent of Sparklehorse, BAD MOON create a kind of highly melodic indie rock, albeit in a version that takes place not outside but in the labyrinth of the inner life.