Jewel Drums

"Making this album was really fun. It almost felt like a debut again, only with the difference that we argued amazingly little (perhaps we should rename ourselves to "Happiness"). It's a confident album that deals with one's own identity and how one is perceived by others ("Fame", "Mannequin"), about being alone, which ends in empowerment and cynicism ("Why Am I So Alone"). There are also non-kitschy love songs to be found ("I Heard It On The Radio", "Twenty Oh Nineteen", "Coma Call"). In two songs, we explored futuristic themes. These triggered mental cinema and excitement while writing ("Glacier", "AFK Mode"). Perhaps the most valuable "Jewel" of our new album is a song that we first recorded in 2014, took out of the crypt and freshly polished ("Soul Capture"). We didn't impose any musical or genre-specific restrictions on ourselves for "Jewel Drums". They were simply meant to be the jewels that creatively motivated us at the time. This also meant that we confronted ourselves with new production challenges, because spanning from quiet, film-music-like pop to almost alt-rock, to experimental underground to 80s and finally contemporary bombast with DRAMAS, sometimes even within a single track, also meant a greater musical development for ourselves than the first two albums allowed."