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HOLIDAY IN POLAND (wallpaper)
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Bumann & Sohn, Cologne
Admission 19:00, start 20:00

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Please go on, please don't stop here! More than two decades after their formation, Urlaub in Polen still celebrate an aesthetic of the passing, the temporary experience within a continuous stream of new impressions and memorabilia accumulating in their luggage. After a long break, the album All was released in 2020. The new release Objects, Beings and Parrots follows on from the band's twisted version of Krautrock, but in the best eclectic tradition continues to explore all kinds of genres without ever losing the common thread. For nine tracks, multi-instrumentalist Georg Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen follow a trail of references (see also the cover collage of tile catalog, retro serving suggestion and archaeology textbook), which creates a pleasant feeling of being carried away while listening - despite the band's refusal to be clearly categorized musically.

The opener Abacus, for example, rolls off with a drum machine and little flourishes in the guitar, and even the title refers to the band's roots in the mechanically clicking motorik sound of first-generation Krautrock. Then the first hook is hit and the track turns into a grooving jam with an increasingly dense sound, howling guitars and the band's typical vocals consisting of short phrases that are sometimes reminiscent of 90s noiserock. The next object along the way is a washing machine, manifested here in the form of a layering of broad synth sounds, erupting drums, distorted guitars and vocals ending in a staccato cough as a jarring and shaking trip into a cosmos of self-contained machinery and a soothing embrace of the imperfect. It continues in such a versatile way, sometimes in the form of lilting retro-futurism (Fame & Fortune), sometimes as surprisingly melodic acoustic pop including a woody brass solo (Jaki's Love Time) and again and again in the interweaving of finely crafted rhythmic repetitions with sonic experiments. The Objects, Beings and Parrots form vague images, orientation and stopping points in this stream, on the one hand as recognizable elements from pop and art history, on the other hand as fleeting and abstract as the track of the same name.

The decelerated creation time of the album is audible: after a long writing phase, the pieces were recorded in several sessions in the MARS studio in the seclusion of the Eifel. The result is a self-contained and trippy celebration of moving on, an ongoing movement that does not exclude pausing and suggests the occasional glance in the rear-view mirror.

https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/urlaub-in-polen#