Listen to the intertwined puzzle pieced tenderness of "Where You Find Me" by Germany's The Notwist and you will hear sprite pop tones (but not), indie rock divergence (but not), dream pop ascensions (but not) and hushed vox telling stories that will move you in all those genre specific ways (but not). It is really, the "not", in their sound, the space between genres that is the allure.
It has been six years since Markus Archer and company has released an album and "Where You Find Me" is the first listen from "Vertigo Days" dropping on January 29th, 2021 via Morr Music. Of this new album Archer shares: “we wanted to question the concept of a band by adding other voices and ideas, other languages, and also question or blur the idea of national identity.”
That desire found the band collaborating with international musical guests like Argentinian songwriter Juana Molina, American jazz artist Angel Bat Dawid, American multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay, and Saya of Japanese pop duo Tenniscoats.
In the end, The Notwist's press described flavors of "melancholy pop, clangorous electronics, hypnotic Krautrock and driftwork ballads" is something I want to linger in after having this first taste. A brilliant one.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
The Notwist are based out of Germany and are:
Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Cico Beck, Andi Haberl, Max Punktezahl & Karl Ivar Refseth,
http://notwist.com/
https://www.instagram.com/the.notwist/
https://www.facebook.com/thenotwist/
https://twitter.com/thenotwist
https://thenotwist.bandcamp.com/
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