Kind Kaputt & Baby of the Bunch (Post-Hardcore & Riot Wave)

In the organizer's words:

Have Kind Kaputt just woken up from a nightmare or is it simply real life itself
itself that needs to be sorted? In their new songs, the band from Leipzig does away with destructiveness
destructiveness and has the courage to point the finger. A step with which
the quartet not only gains a new clarity thematically, but also in the
out of the thicket of life, but also finds a completely new sound.
Analogous to the more straightforward lyricism, the new Kind-Kaputt sound is downright straightforward
and at the same time more independent than ever. Music that cannot erase the burdens of everyday life
but reaches out to you when things seem hopeless.
The Kind-Kaputt debut album "Zerfall", released in 2019, was a visually stunning
monolith whose title alone underlines its destructive streak. In twelve
conceptually coherent songs, the band led by singer Johannes Prautzsch
singer Johannes Prautzsch, drummer Mathis Kerscher, guitarist Konstantin Cajkin and videographer Fabian
Willi Simon formulate the story of an entire generation searching for stability. The feeling of
of shorelessness was buried in massive post-hardcore works of art, which
the excessive demands of everyday life through helplessness. But how do you move on
after a record that unerringly captured the concerns of a fragile reality of life
but hardly looked for ways out? Kind Kaputt perhaps sound
the after-effects of a massive record like "Zerfall" on their new songs as if they had
as if they had rediscovered themselves all over again.
Because suddenly you think you can find some contour in the world-weariness in the songs again.
Kind Kaputt have radically tidied up their sound and achieved the feat,
not drift into banalities. The gigantic walls of sound give way to
structured, forward-pointing alternative melodies, which are all the more captivating thanks to their
melodicism make them all the more captivating. In an attic converted into a recording studio
attic, instead of a large-scale concept work, many individual songs are created,
which can get to the heart of their messages all the more pointedly. At the same time
Kind Kaputt do not give up their penchant for wonderful imagery, but package their messages
messages with even more courage to name them clearly. "The time after the album
was difficult," recalls Mathis. "We all fell into a bit of a hole and didn't
didn't know what to do next for a long time. It was only after nine months
we started writing songs again. We wanted to write them differently: more straightforward,
more direct, clearer."
With their unmistakable language, the new Kind-Kaputt songs prove to be music with a symbolic edge.
music with a symbolic edge that you can cling to. The tracks contain
the pulsating style of the German post-punk school, but doesn't seek out the grueling
self-destruction, but rather the striving for clarity in the fog of feelings.
feelings. Kind Kaputt find in the fire of the rotating bass and guitar riffs and the relentless
relentlessly forward-pushing drums always find the saving melody or the open-armed alternative
or the open-armed alternative hymn that makes the songs not only understandable
but also inviting. The fact that some elements of the band are reminiscent of the late
Heisskalt in some elements is hardly a coincidence - after all, their singer Mathias
Bloech worked as a producer on many of the tracks and spent time with the band on
with the band on a few scalding hot summer days to record.

The approach of the resulting individual pieces also plays into the hands of band member Fabian Willi Simon
who is solely responsible for the visual production of Kind Kaputt and who has created
who has created a distinctive video for each of the new songs. The
The diverse range of these clips clearly underlines the extent to which Kind Kaputt's
Kaputt's way of working also allows them to elaborate the uniqueness of individual

work out. The song "Gründe", for example, is accompanied by an interlaced performance
video, "Bleiben" with Heisskalt frontman Mathias Bloech translates the flower

the flower metaphor of the lyrics into the very visual scenario of a greenhouse and the
extensive recordings for "Zeit" were even made entirely in the Microsoft Flight Simulator.
were created.
It speaks for Kind Kaputt's foresight that their new songs, despite their
distilled sharpness, their new songs do not lose sight of the essentials. Because of course
the world is not suddenly in order even after the "disintegration", perhaps it is even
worse than ever. But perhaps intelligent reflection is sometimes more effective than
self-destruction. This music is needed right now - especially when the reality around
around it seems so much more restless.