In the artist's words:

Electronic sounds appear and disappear the next moment, alienated vocal samples - deliberately chopped up - combine to form catchy melodies and the deep pulse of a piano pedal can be heard in the background. In Quicche's highly emotional music, which plays with effects, it quickly becomes clear that the production is just as important as the songwriting itself, which means there is a lot to see in his songs - always!

If the arrangements here seem disorienting at times, it's the sentimental harmonies that continue to embrace you. The emotional spectrum ranges from dreaming away on ambient mattresses to pure folktronica melancholy and liberating catharsis. Just take the song "Mid 30s HB": it crackles and bubbles, rears up and collapses before finally breaking open with brute power. The drums seem to reverberate for eternity, the guitars roar shoegaze-like, the vocoder can be felt deep under the skin - a song that leaves you with your jaw hanging down.

Marc Grünhäuser - the musician behind the project - spent a month recording his debut album in East Frisia, in a remote house with an improvised recording studio and self-imposed limitations (both in terms of human contact and equipment). If you pay attention to the omnipresent feeling of nostalgia and loneliness as well as the sometimes unusual use of instruments and field recordings when listening to "Frisia", you can feel this isolation in every word and every note. And so it is hardly surprising that even before Quicche's first release, the legendary London tastemaker label R&S Records (including Aphex Twin & James Blake) became aware of the project and signed him.

Ultimately, Quicche's music is so great because it shows you how man and machine can complement each other and create sentimental feelings. It often sounds as if something is broken, and that's what makes everything seem so alive. Every crack makes the whole thing tangible, lets light through. You feel understood: Things don't have to be perfect to be effective. On the contrary, the imperfect is all the more effective. It's the same with music as it is with people. These songs have understood that - and conversely, we feel understood by them.