THE SCREENSHOTS

Two million in sales with a simple idea - that was the plan when Cologne-based rock band The Screenshots debuted three years ago. The result? Chart position 45, pandemic and plus-minus-zero. Time for a new chapter, which is not about sales, but about people. With a lot of playfulness, lightness and a new directness: Welcome to Wunderwerk Mensch!
On the new album of The Screenshots, it no longer sounds like a senseless success mindset. This has to do with the fact that the band had to learn with the last album "2 million sales with a simple idea" that sales alone are not yet a profit. And so the latent permanent irony of the first years makes room for another form of truthfulness.
"Wunderwerk Mensch" is characterized by the courage to experiment and a range that can also be attributed to the album's production method. With the creative input of producer Nicolas Epe, the music was created in a process of two years in different studios, basements and private apartments. And now finds its way onto recycled vinyl. The random mixing of colors in the recycling process makes each record unique.
Lyrically, the year of Chat GPT also revolves around the essential questions of human existence: What is happiness? Who loves whom and how much? And: Wasn't every grandfather also a baby once? So after the pandemic, canceled tours and the big question hovering over everything, how to exist as a small indie band in the long term, it goes on. In October 2023 on "Wunderwerk Mensch" tour through NRW and the rest of the world.

The Screenshots met on the Internet in 2018. From their first rehearsal room in Krefeld, their path quickly led to television (Neo Magazin Royale, Late Night Berlin), festivals (Immergut, Highfield, Appletree Garden, etc.) and band internships with Von wegen Lisbeth, Madsen and Sportfreunde Stiller. The Süddeutsche Zeitung saw in the debut album: "A humorous stocktaking of our banal present," Spiegel Online found: "If this is a joke, it's getting better and better." Twitter doesn't really play a role in the band anymore: singer Dax Werner has donated his account with 60,000 followers to Mission Lifeline. The other two Shooters have also expanded their work in the meantime: Kurt Prödel, for example, with the podcast Friendly Reminder with Carla Kaspari, his two solo EPs or as a sidekick in Studio Schmitt (ZDFneo) while Susi Bumms published a fantastic weekly calendar with her drawings.