This is how you come back after a few years of band hiatus. Just like this. And this song has to be the one after such a shitty year. Exactly this one. Trümmer are releasing their first single today from their album "Früher war gestern," which will be released on September 17, 2021. The track is also the album opener and has the beautiful name "Wann wenn nicht." At the same time, the band is announcing a tour for November.
Those who worried about Trümmer, since "Interzone" is already five years behind us and all band members have been busy with other projects, will feel right from the first notes: The band is doing well. They are excited. And they have something to say. The sound is typically Trümmer – the Sturm-und-Drang early phase, just tighter. The lineup is again: Paul Pötsch (guitar, vocals), Tammo Kasper (bass), Maximilian Fenski (drums), Helge Hasselberg (guitar). The latter also produced the album.
"These are all live recordings. We locked ourselves in a manor in Schleswig-Holstein in March and basically mic'd the whole house. But even while writing these songs, at some point, the penny dropped for me, and I asked myself: What is the music that touches me, moves me, makes me dance, and somehow makes me angry? So we wanted to make the music that we ourselves like," says Paul. You can hear that in "Was wenn nicht" and the other ten songs. And the music they like, which they themselves reference as fitting, would be: Fontaines D.C., the last Strokes album, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the early punk of the 70s – more the New York faction. What stands out? Clearly, no German references. "We understand, of course, that those will come from the press again, but our role models were never actually German."
The link to the video “Wann wenn nicht“ is as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieEu86e43UI
And that brings us to "Wann wenn nicht," which should resonate with many people right now. With its mood between anger and new beginnings, with the biting resignation of the first lines: "I look around and see a world / Where nothing is right and I don't like anything / And I think: It's all too late / The facts are on the table / It's five to twelve and nothing is happening." What sounds bleak is musically and lyrically turned around during the course of the song to transform the grimness into a kind of positive anger. Paul explains it this way: "The song sums up the whole album for me. When I read the news and somehow deal with the state of the world, which one has done even more intensively lately, I often think: 'My God! Everything is getting worse!' But why actually? We are the ones who have it in our hands. It's not a natural law that everything is somehow going down the drain, but we are the ones who decide how life is."
This spirit characterizes the entire album. Tammo also says: "I think we've never had as much fun as a band during recordings as we do now. This is also because in recent years, we've all done our own things and built our own structures alongside the band." One could say: Tammo has further developed his label and management Euphorie with Henning Mues and manages acts like Leoniden, Ilgen-Nur, Ebow, The Screenshots, Fritzi Ernst, and others. Paul, on the other hand, was a productive part of Ilgen-Nur's band, created theater music, and performed with Carsten Meyer aka Erobique in the GDR music revue "Wir treiben die Liebe auf die Weide." Drummer Maximilian Fenski now works as a doctor in a Berlin hospital. Helge Hasselberg is part of the musical duo Heartbeast and has produced albums for Leoniden, Trixsi, and Lafote in recent years, among others. So one could say that parts of Trümmer have, in recent years, in other roles, helped bring the excitement back to the local indie scene. It's great that they are now back as a band.
The album "Früher war gestern" by Trümmer will be released on September 17, 2021, via PIAS.
Tour dates:
22.11.2021 Cologne, Baumann & Sohn
23.11.2021 Munich, Milla
24.11.2021 Nuremberg, Club Stereo
25.11.2021 Berlin, Berghain Kantine
26.11.2021 Leipzig, Ilses Erika
27.11.2021 Hamburg, Molotow Club
