Albrecht Schrader kicks off the year with his new song "Donnerstags 8 bis 9". A song about therapy sessions.
Here is the lyrics video:
ALBRECHT SCHRADER - DONNERSTAGS 8 BIS 9 (Lyrics Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTBtHtP-lk
The new album "Soft" will be released on January 20, 2023.
After that, Albrecht Schrader will go on tour:
26.01.2023 Berlin, Monarch
27.01.2023 Hamburg, Nochtwache
28.01.2023 Cologne, King Georg
About "Donnerstags 8 bis 9":
"The Extraordinary in the Ordinary" - this principle, whose authorship is hard to determine, but which was at least an explicit working method for Scott Walker and probably an unconscious dogma for Van Dyke Parks and Joni Mitchell, seems to attract Albrecht Schrader repeatedly. There are numerous songs from his previous releases that are lyrically tracing the aesthetics of the everyday - always with the aim of elevating them through carefully arranged music to such an extent that the ordinary ascends into the sphere of the sublime - "The Extraordinary in the Ordinary" indeed.
The third single "Donnerstags 8 bis 9" from his album "SOFT", which will be released on January 20, features a weekday in its title. What could be more ordinary, mundane, and unremarkable than that? Only in the chorus do we learn what the lyrical I has to do every Thursday at the same time: it’s about therapy sessions. However, anyone hoping for grand confessions, emotional outpourings, or similar in the following verses will be disappointed. Albrecht Schrader remains factual, precise, and small in his language. It seems he aims to shed light on the increasingly public topic of mental health from a different, everyday perspective. The lyrical climax is logically the word Thursday. Wow! That initially seems rather unimpressive.
The only thing that tells an impressive intensification throughout the song is the music. Psychedelic textures, a harmonium, and backing choirs gradually but steadily increase in intensity, the bass establishes itself from a background tone provider to a secret melody instrument and skillfully integrates into the rhythm of the radiant Thursday choirs - all of this is consistently and harmoniously supported by a classic pop piano. This is finely balanced psychedelic pop that certainly bows to Brian Wilson, even seems to confidently wave at him a bit. Because just as Wilson helped texts from the aforementioned Van Dyke Parks, which sometimes only dealt with vegetables, to transcend their ordinariness through the abstract power of music, Albrecht Schrader also nudges the topic of psychotherapy with finesse and a pinch of humor over the edge. What exactly is being told behind that is ultimately hard to say. And that is good.
Here is the lyrics video:
ALBRECHT SCHRADER - DONNERSTAGS 8 BIS 9 (Lyrics Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTBtHtP-lk
The new album "Soft" will be released on January 20, 2023.
After that, Albrecht Schrader will go on tour:
26.01.2023 Berlin, Monarch
27.01.2023 Hamburg, Nochtwache
28.01.2023 Cologne, King Georg
About "Donnerstags 8 bis 9":
"The Extraordinary in the Ordinary" - this principle, whose authorship is hard to determine, but which was at least an explicit working method for Scott Walker and probably an unconscious dogma for Van Dyke Parks and Joni Mitchell, seems to attract Albrecht Schrader repeatedly. There are numerous songs from his previous releases that are lyrically tracing the aesthetics of the everyday - always with the aim of elevating them through carefully arranged music to such an extent that the ordinary ascends into the sphere of the sublime - "The Extraordinary in the Ordinary" indeed.
The third single "Donnerstags 8 bis 9" from his album "SOFT", which will be released on January 20, features a weekday in its title. What could be more ordinary, mundane, and unremarkable than that? Only in the chorus do we learn what the lyrical I has to do every Thursday at the same time: it’s about therapy sessions. However, anyone hoping for grand confessions, emotional outpourings, or similar in the following verses will be disappointed. Albrecht Schrader remains factual, precise, and small in his language. It seems he aims to shed light on the increasingly public topic of mental health from a different, everyday perspective. The lyrical climax is logically the word Thursday. Wow! That initially seems rather unimpressive.
The only thing that tells an impressive intensification throughout the song is the music. Psychedelic textures, a harmonium, and backing choirs gradually but steadily increase in intensity, the bass establishes itself from a background tone provider to a secret melody instrument and skillfully integrates into the rhythm of the radiant Thursday choirs - all of this is consistently and harmoniously supported by a classic pop piano. This is finely balanced psychedelic pop that certainly bows to Brian Wilson, even seems to confidently wave at him a bit. Because just as Wilson helped texts from the aforementioned Van Dyke Parks, which sometimes only dealt with vegetables, to transcend their ordinariness through the abstract power of music, Albrecht Schrader also nudges the topic of psychotherapy with finesse and a pinch of humor over the edge. What exactly is being told behind that is ultimately hard to say. And that is good.
