TRISTESSE

In the organizer's words:

In Berlin, people search for dreams and sing about them from all sides.
With TRISTESSE, the "Neue Deutsche Softness" has gained a band that breaks its five heads over self-discovery and getting lost.
finding themselves and getting lost. Despite the most tried-and-tested constellation, the combo, founded in 2019, is a musical REM sleep phase in which guitars and vocals blur into lucid strings and every song tries to be an orchestrated dream image.

Determined by space, shoegazey guitar carpets merge with soft vocals to create dreamy pop
indie rock. The echoing words stretch out into the chord sequences, drums and bass catch them out of the air and frame them. It is the space for lulling yourself into the familiar and for that moment of shock just before you fall that defines the band's sound. Blurred with effects.
Reverberating. Intoxicated. Restless.

Difficult to put your finger on. With "Die Sonne ging unter, auch ich hatte
forgotten", a debut album about being torn back and forth. The lyrics are less dreary and gray and more painfully sensitive, almost black and white, about blossoming in the farewell of adolescence, burning out in exhausting numbness and the euphoria of newly earned freedom. You want to think "uphill and downhill" and then change your mind in time. Because the songs are nuanced and try to cover a spectrum of emotions. You think you're treading water, but things are always moving forward.