The Hamburg band Olympya announces their debut album "Auto" for February 26, 2021, on the Audiolith label. With precision, Olympya transforms NDW, Post-Punk, Dark Wave, Hip-Hop, and Pop into highly infectious, modern pop on their first album. Today, another single from their debut, along with a music video, is released: "Crash Test Dummies".
The music video for “Crash Test Dummies” can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pqFuQ4x6F0&feature=youtu.be
We live in post-distinctive times. The identification with a specific peer group is, on one hand, the formation of a seemingly individual identity; on the other hand, nothing is gained aesthetically by differentiation. Therefore, it holds true: Freedom for music, let’s embrace disparity!
The group Olympya has perfectly internalized the new boundlessness. On their first album “Auto,” the Hamburg band translates the cheeky euphoria and the punk-trained widescreen rock of Neue Deutsche Welle representatives like Extrabreit, Fehlfarben, or Nichts with the cool, electronically grounded aesthetics of those days, along with a direct pull to the chorus.
Olympya combines bitterly ironic sharpness, political bite, and precise observations of everyday life with catchy choruses that give their reflections a universal moment. They negotiate classic teen comedy themes with clear NDW references. Ominous keyboards, call-and-response choirs, minimalist verses, energetic Sturm-und-Drang choruses.
The special merit of the group Olympya lies in the way they distort the best of the Neue Deutsche Welle, the horror ghetto of those dreadful NDW over-50 parties, and lead it back into the light with a certain darkness and a clear Hip-Hop perspective.
One is reminded time and again of songs like “Radio” by Nichts, “Eisbär” by Grauzone, and of course, Extrabreit. But these are pieces that hardly anyone can remember today.
This is where the twist lies: Olympya, by nature, cannot know this music firsthand, which is why their perspective on it is a different, contemporary one. NDW, Post-Punk, Electro, Schweinerock, Hip-Hop, and Pop are effortlessly condensed by Olympya into a highly infectious, immensely captivating, modern pop music that is entirely rooted in the here and now, despite all historical awareness.
All these worlds and much more come together in Olympya, demonstrating that no musical genre is ever dated; it’s always about how the music is filled with life and meaning. In this respect, Olympya is exactly the band we have been waiting for. They arrive at just the right time.
"Auto" by Olympya will be released on February 26, 2021.
