MOLA - LIEBE BRUTAL TOUR 2025

In the organizer's words:

MOLA - that's unmentionables à la "Mama, I don't want to be a mama" freely and solemnly belted out into the world; that's the dramatically charged last fag; that's intoxicated flying and intoxicated falling. MOLA - these are snappy gutter pop earworms and heartbreaking soul ballads that smell of punk leather jackets; these are pathos-soaked Italo crooners in a thunderstorm, these are bittersweet symphonies from the indie rock rumble cellar. MOLA - that's Isabella Streifeneder's sometimes crumpled, sometimes gloriously roaring vocal bows; that's catchy, barbed guitar riffs, squeaking synths and dusty drums; that's the unmistakable signature of the eight-armed multi-instrumentalist and producer Markus Sebastian Harbauer. MOLA - these are either wistful, merciful or gallows-humorous hymns to crumbling dreams, escapades, the crappiness of things and life without a driver's license; these are brusque punchlines against the lies of adults, these are tussles with one's own heart, this is "all great or all the same". MOLA - that's a red heart vomiting, monster-like creature with poisonous green eyes; that's radical friction, that's "Snow in Summer", that's "Liebe Brutal".

"Liebe Brutal" is the name of the third MOLA album, which will be released in summer 2025 and was officially announced this Friday. It sounds a good deal snappier, more agile and livelier than its predecessors - and yet as blunt and raspy as MOLA music has to sound. "Liebe Brutal" is about heartbreak and heartache; about rushing through the night and waking up crumpled, about being a young professional, about flying off the rails - in whatever context - and often about refusing to give in. A song that touches on virtually all the core themes of the LP? The unadulterated, impulsive "Mama", carried by funky drums and tugging indie pop guitars. The second advance single from "Liebe Brutal" is MOLA's bossy, determined counter to any old-fashioned patriarchal sense of entitlement addressed to her and her body. "Mama" is not released twenty-four hours before the feminist day of struggle by chance. The play celebrates female self-determination and the conscious decision to indulge in the sweet life instead of allowing oneself to be turned into a birthing machine semi-voluntarily: "Why be a mom now? Party without end, lose my own custody".

Speaking of custody: Isabella Streifeneder aka MOLA was born in Italy and grew up under stressful conditions in Munich, where she still lives today. Between studying jazz singing and working on band projects, she spent a long time searching in vain for an artistic vision: jamming, doodling, crumpling, waitressing, waitressing, waitressing - that's how it went for years. When MOLA started working with producer Markus Sebastian Harbauer in 2017, the knot burst. Suddenly Isabella's songs sounded like the stories they tell: Quite gruff and snotty, always a bit ramshackle and ramshackle and yet ultra-aromantic, symphonic, fervent and big. Between 2017 and 2020, MOLA's nationwide popularity grew steadily - greatly accelerated by the play "Alles gelogen" with Majan. The first major project "Schnee im Sommer", which featured guest parts from Roy Bianco & the Abbrunzati Boys, Haiyti and Fatoni, provided the final breakthrough and plenty of radio rotation in 2021. This was followed by winning the Udo Lindenberg Foundation's Panic Prize and several nominations for the Pop Culture Prize.

In recent years, MOLA has played at a number of well-known festivals such as Lollapalooza, Deichbrand, Open Flair and Rocco del Schlacco, featured artists such as Bibiza, Tiavo, Il Civetto, Oehl and Ami Warning and shone as a support act for Wanda, Großstadtgeflüster, Antilopen Gang and Milliarden. Following the release of their second album "Das Leben ist schön" in the fall of 2023, MOLA and the band went on an almost sold-out headlining tour. In January 2024, Isabella and Markus started work on the forthcoming third album. While new songs were being written between Munich and Berlin, MOLA was featured on the cover album "Wolf Biermann Re:Imagined - Lieder für jetzt" and was a permanent fixture on the Bavarian Radio program.