Iris Electrum are a band of twelve, gathered around composer and percussionist Johannes Wakolbinger, singer Mira Lu Kovacs, and producer Sixtus Preiss. After having spent two years in the studio negotiating no more and no less than the “most exciting, most comforting, and most profound in music”, the collective are now ready to present their new album. It features pop music of stunning grandeur, and of moving simplicity. Eleven songs brimming over with ideas, sounds, shapes, defying any stylistic categorization, nimbly commuting between different genres, celebrating diversity and curiosity: stories meandering between perplexity and clarity, between despair and hope, between poetic license and truth. Speaking of poetry: how much truth is in the words we hear in track 2?! you are / not more / than me / if you / make me / less / than you.
Here we go again, listening to some good Austrian music on the way ...