Il Civetto - Liebe auf Eis Tour

In the organizer's words:

With songs about toxic masculinity, a world in turmoil and some of the most radiant melodies of their career to date, Il Civetto have once again completely reinvented themselves.

With guests such as Frank Dellé (Seeed), the result is "Liebe auf Eis", the wonderfully intoxicating new Il Civetto album, which is also the Berlin pop band's most personal and haunting to date.

When Il Civetto come on, the sun rises. No joke, that's just the way it is. "We can't explain it either," says Leon Keiditsch, "but it's happened again and again this year: that it stops raining as soon as we go on stage at a festival. Before rain, after rain, during our performance the sun shines. It's a bit scary."

Keiditsch is the singer of the Berlin pop group Il Civetto, who actually have a very special gift: When the night seems deepest, Il Civetto know the light switch. This applies not only to their concerts, but to the band's music in general - and even more so to their new album: "Liebe auf Eis" combines light with shadow, the vibe of a balmy summer night with the hangover afterwards.

In this respect, "Liebe auf Eis" is the pop of a generation that has been cheated of its future by its elders, but is not willing to give it up without a fight. It's about love, hope, solidarity - and radiant melodies that simply make you happy. "Sounds a bit like climate porn to me," said Il Civetto fan Luisa Neubauer in a joint interview when Keiditsch explained his thoughts on "Love on Ice" to her. And yes, theoretically even that would be conceivable with Il Civetto.

The music is consistently intoxicating, rousing, euphoric, the lyrics are not always. Because Il Civetto say what needs to be said: Another explicitly autobiographical song is the introspective "Questions", which is about parting and loss and how the scars of childhood shape us forever. These facets of existence were previously absent from the emotional spectrum of this music, but now they make "Liebe auf Eis" the most intense Il Civetto album to date. This also applies - in a different way - to "Hollywood Ending" and the powerful hymn "Rain in Rome and Paris", a love song in the face of the climate catastrophe.

"We live in a time when the world increasingly seems to be heading in the wrong direction," says Leon Keiditsch. "But no matter how hopeless it may seem, songs like 'Future in the Wind' should motivate us to take to the streets and fight for a better future." Il Civetto know, of course, that we can only pull the cart out of the mud ourselves, on this gloomy, dark, beautiful, staggering earth.

"Love on Ice" is the soundtrack to dancing on the volcano, on the edge of the crater - and the band will soon be bringing it back to the stage: The biggest tour in Il Civetto's history to date is coming up. The light will be stronger than the shadows on these evenings. The sun will shine, there will be plenty of love in the room.