When YEDM initially interviewed German darkwave powerhouse and multimedia artist Anne Wichmann mid-pandemic, we lined a number of subjects, from the COVID lockdown to her movies to her typically “troublesome” psyche, however the truth that she had additionally made music along with her brother, guitarist Volker Wichmann, within the early 00s. The partnership presumably ended when Anne moved to Brooklyn from their native Hamburg, Germany. Now, nearly twenty years later, the duo have reunited (though they nonetheless dwell on totally different continents) to create SuperWAV, a stripped down rock challenge that simply launched its second EP, aTypical.
Given Anne’s largely darkwave and electro background and the truth that the siblings doubtless had to make use of lots of digital tech to create the music collectively on account of their bodily distance, SuperWAV is surprisingly sparse relating to digital musical components. They’re current, however the pair has been decidedly targeted on brass tacks with each their debut EP, Components, and the just-dropped aTypical. Based on Anne:
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We wished the songs to be simple, direct and in your face. Mainly: Let’s take out every part that the track doesn’t want. Cut back it to pure guts! The theme of (persona) archetypes is a posh one, and its exploration is including a considerate layer to the music.
Regardless of the stripped-down, naked bones rock really feel to aTypical, it’s additionally definitely true that it’s a really nuanced EP. One may anticipate nothing much less from Anne Wichmann and her blood relations. Every observe is known as after one of many 5 persona archetypes; each the lyrics and music are supposed to be an interpretation of every one. “The Lover,” for instance, is tough and passionate and explores the previous adage, “love is blind” within the lyrics, whereas “The Harmless” is stuffed with ambient echo and the lyrics focus on the inevitable destruction of innocence.
Dubbed “stoner rock” by the band themselves, followers of Anne’s former tasks will battle to seek out the connection to her previous darkwave work however it’s there in refined methods. Whereas they wished to maintain the music on the punk fringe of put up punk or the minimal fringe of grunge, there are nonetheless components of drone and darkwave within the background manufacturing and tone of the album, respectively. SuperWAV’s first EP, 2018’s Components had extra apparent connections to electronica, however the backing manufacturing, association and engineering of aTypical relied on that darkwave data from previous tasks, in keeping with Volker.
It’s a lot enjoyable to work collectively once more, and thrilling to seek out new methods of collaborating throughout such a protracted distance. For ATYPICAL it seems like we picked up the place RAWJAW (the Wichmanns’ earlier band within the early 00s) ended – but discovering our personal sound of at the moment in each tune.
It doesn’t matter what you name this new Wichmann challenge, followers will doubtless see the sister-brother duo going backwards and forwards over the strains of analog and digital in some ways because the proceed to develop the challenge. It appears to be a focal point for each of them. Within the meantime, SuperWAV are constructing an excellent wave of a discography and followers ought to anticipate the surprising from this dynamic musical duo.
aTypical is out now and may be streamed on Spotify.