AB Syndrom

In the organizer's words:

Blindflug, the first single from AB Syndrom's new album, is a song about the fear of not being enough with one's music; about the fear that after all the albums, concerts and written lyrics, all that remains is sad panting after one's idols, amateurish bumbling, simply no art.

Packing this feeling into a song is typical of AB Syndrom, as is the radical disclosure of their own fears and feelings in general. They thus form a counter-draft to the fake it till you make it attitude of the resurgent Alpha Males, in which any admission of insecurity inevitably banishes you to the realm of the losers aka Omegas (or even worse: women).

Fittingly, AB Syndrom have brought a musician on board for this approach, Trille, who stands for precisely this radical openness and, together with the duo, embodies the idea that a world in which everyone can talk about their own fears is ultimately a better world for everyone.

Musically, this is accompanied by chugging synths that initially stutter hesitantly and later pour out in an ecstatic surge over a pulsating bass. This is dilettantism at best in its distorted self-perception.