Messer
Jalousie
For their third album entitled Jalousie the German band Messer didn't want to rush. After releasing their first two albums Im Schwindel (2012) and Die Unsichtbaren (2013) the band played numerous shows, travelled to China and made acquaintance with the theatre. But the band was looking for a new orientation in a musical sense as well. Indeed, change was in the air on many levels, when the group was starting a long process of writing new songs: Guitarist Palle Schaumburg left the band; multiinstrumentalist Milek (A.M. Thawn, Dein Rauschen) joined the band to play both the guitar and the synthesizer; Manuel Chittka (Love-Songs), who accompanies the band on the percussion for quite a while now, has become a stable member and has contributed to the songwriting for the first time; his drumming now coalesces with Philipp Wulf's driving beats more than ever; bassist Pogo McCartney has discovered old electric organs - and Hendrik Otremba has assembled way more melody in his singing, while his lyrics present a more matured, literary language. In brief: The group Messer has developed. Therefore, the songs on their third album Jalousie are more multilayered and more playful, they open up a more complex world of motives and offer plenty of new discoveries with every listen. The resulting eleven songs all bear the same signature, while still being able to capture totally different atmospheres: Underneath all of them one can read the name Messer in scrolled handwriting. Collectively, the musicians are looking through the jalousie which is gracing the front cover - or are they rather standing behind it in the dark?