The Screenshots, the band featuring the three Twitter stars Dax Werner, Susi Bumms, and Kurt Prödel, will release their new album "2 Million Revenue with a Simple Idea" on October 16, 2020. Today, the new song "Snacks" and a music video for it are being released. Additionally, The Screenshots are announcing tour dates for early 2021.
One can only congratulate Dax Werner, Kurt Prödel, and Susi Bumms. Why? Because the trio has achieved an impressive feat with their band The Screenshots. Until their first appearance on the scene about two years ago, the situation was pretty clear. While the world may fall apart every day over this or that disagreement, there was – at least in the pop cosmos – a tacit agreement: music based on the interplay of vocals, guitar, clattering, and a bit of bass is done. The Beatles, Radiohead, and U2 – merely footnotes in pop history, out-of-date niche music for nostalgics.
But then suddenly there were The Screenshots, who released the EPs “Ein starkes Team” and “Übergriff” along with the subsequent “Europa” LP, which must be described as the simplest yet most honest rock music in years. Despite their newcomer status, the trio marched through every trade publication and its online outlet as well as the entire feuilleton. “Discourse pop at the height of time,” wrote Die Zeit, “the most exciting German-language guitar rock of the moment,” said Rolling Stone. After expressions of respect from Jan Delay to the band Mia and Jan Böhmermann, it was only a matter of time before the Sh00ters finally stood on festival stages and the publicly funded shiny floor of Neo Magazine Royale.
The video for the song “Snacks” can be found at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz54gqWrCz4
Quite remarkable for a band whose members had previously appeared less through their musical talent than as three anonymous individual avatars on the short messaging service Twitter, each playing their respective timeline in various ways with witty to brilliant points of up to 280 characters in length. With the song “Wir lieben uns und bauen uns ein Haus” and its video, the band finally ended the guessing game about their identities in the fall of 2019 and appeared in front of the camera for the first time.
“2 Million Revenue with a Simple Idea” is now the second album of this very special band. Especially in that the eternally same experience in pop journalism platitudes about this second album and any difficulties in the creation process is simply prohibited. The eleven pieces that Dax Werner, Kurt Prödel, and Susi Bumms have compiled for this record are so beautiful and sovereign.
“2 Million Revenue with a Simple Idea” skillfully declaims the entire spectrum of rock music. Sometimes wonderfully loud and strummed, then again gently played along, and in the next moment piled up again into oversized sound walls for the stadium, it creates thoroughly good pop music - poetic and pointed, clever and naive, ironic and yet direct.
"2 Million Revenue with a Simple Idea" by The Screenshots will be released on October 16, 2020.
The Screenshots live:
22.01.2021 Münster, Gleis 22
23.01.2021 Köln, Gebäude 9
16.02.2021 Bremen, Lagerhaus
17.02.2021 Hamburg, Molotow
18.02.2021 Berlin, SO36
19.02.2021 Leipzig, Naumann’s
24.02.2021 Wiesbaden, Schlachthof
25.02.2021 Karlsruhe, Kohi
26.02.2021 Nürnberg, Club Stereo
27.02.2021 Augsburg, Soho Stage
01.03.2021 AT-Wien, B72
02.03.2021 AT-Salzburg, Rockhouse
03.03.2021 München, Feierwerk Kranhalle
05.03.2021 Dresden, Scheune
06.03.2021 Bochum, Trompete
