Tobias: At that time (about two years ago) I was making a lot of music and also producing. I started working with different artists, but there was never the proper “flow”. I was looking for someone to sing and write lyrics for the music I wrote, because I can produce and play several instruments, but singing and lyrics were never really my thing to do. With Julian it was different. From the beginning we had a great workflow, which is pretty rare. It felt so easy working with him from the start : we got along, liked the same sound, I liked the way he sang and wrote lyrics straight away and he liked the way I write music. 

 

Julian: [laughs] we complete each other in that sense, he does all the hard work and I get to do what I really enjoy laughs. The energy and the vibe is great. Different to working in bigger bands where there is a lot of discussing and compromising, with him it’s easy and quick and very little compromising has to be done, because we mostly agree on things.

 

I asked you to each name five songs that have inspired you - would you pick one and tell me why? (full playlist ->)

 

Tobias: I think one of my biggest influences is The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”. It has been accompanying me since I was a kid, because my Dad is a big fan of all those 50’s, 60’s and 70’s classics and I listened to these records from an early age. The specific sound - there’s an electro-theremin in the chorus and the distinctive bass-line it begins with, played by Carol Kaye (an amazing studio bassist they hired to record it) and all this sound-design - I think it was one of the most expensive at that time and you can hear it! The sound structure, all of that really blew me away. I didn’t know what all these instruments were as a kid and its inspired me ever since. As a producer, sound technician and musician it surely shapes everything I do. 

 

Julian: I’ve picked five songs that particularly inspired me in this project. One is Lost Under Heaven’s “Lament” simply because Ellery Roberts in my opinion is the best singer of all time and he has the best broken, rough voice you can imagine and it definitely shaped my singing style. Oh and Darkside’s “Paper Trails” because of their mix of rock- and electronic elements.

 

Now that your first Single is out, what’s coming next?

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Julian: The second single! [collective laughing]

Well because of the pandemic a lot of artists are waiting to release their albums, so we wanted to stand out and decided to go for a different strategy: we’re planning on releasing a couple of singles, all with their own story, and then a music video in autumn.

We are realistic enough to know that it doesn’t make sense for us to release an album right now, so we’ve decided on something a bit different. 

 

How about live shows?

 

To be honest there was no concept on how or when we would do live shows yet until you asked us to play the “Off the Record”- session [laughs]. We started deciding on how we want to build the live shows - either just the two of us or with a drummer. We figured both works.

Due to the concept and our flexibility we won’t have any problems playing pretty much anywhere and we’re definitely looking forward to it.