A residential building in Thalkirchen. A few stairs lead down to an old cellar corridor. A little further down the corridor you can see two red curtains, behind them two large arched rooms. In one, a drum kit and other instruments, distributed across the board. In the other there are more instruments, a mixer, laptops, analogue pictures on the walls, fabrics hanging around, small and large objects everywhere. A cave of creativity.
Tracks like “I Love You”, “I Miss You”, “IF****d Up” and “I’m Fine” are created here. Songs featured on the band’s EP “Cycles”. Acid World can be found. The recently released record tells of an all too familiar vicious circle. Falling in love, missing each other, somehow destroying everything and then fixing yourself until it starts all over again. But in addition to the concept of the four tracks, what stands out is the musical diversity, for example when a concise guitar riff is overlaid with harp sounds in “I Miss You”. “I thought it was going to clash really hard, but it actually works really well, that’s how it usually is,” says Korbinian Weippert, instrumentalist.
They had friends play instruments that they couldn’t play themselves, like the flute in “I Love You” or the harp. It often becomes clear that not everyone works the way they do. So freestyle. “For us, someone sits down, plugs in the guitar and then it somehow works out,” says Benjamin Ruf, the band’s singer. They would have completely forgotten that others need something like grades or advance planning. “None of us can read music,” says Korbinian and laughs.
The four musicians all come from different genres, but met during audio engineering training and learned to produce there. Which probably explains why they’ve been releasing one song after another since the beginning of last year. But how exactly is difficult to understand, because it’s as if the band lives in their own cosmos. “Most of the songs really come about when we get together for a session.” Someone takes an instrument and plays a few chords. “Then someone else picks up a guitar, plays something along with it, and something cool usually comes out of it,” says Benjamin. The songs are nothing more than a constantly changing interplay of their four personalities and their understanding of music.
Acid World
Style: Post-emo/psychedelic rock
Occupation: Joé Fleischhauer (lyrics and vocals), Benjamin Ruf aka Genki (lyrics and vocals), Dominik Berthold (instruments), Korbinian Weippert (instruments)
Since: 2022
Internet: www.instagram.com/everything_melts