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 usually “troublesome” psyche, however the truth that she had additionally made music together 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, virtually twenty years later, the duo have reunited (though they nonetheless stay on totally different continents) to create SuperWAV, a stripped down rock mission that simply launched its second EP, aTypical.
Given Anne’s largely darkwave and electro background and the truth that the siblings possible had to make use of loads of digital tech to create the music collectively attributable to their bodily distance, SuperWAV is surprisingly sparse with regards to digital musical parts. They’re current, however the pair has been decidedly centered on brass tacks with each their debut EP, Parts, and the just-dropped aTypical. In accordance with Anne:
We needed the songs to be easy, direct and in your face. Mainly: Let’s take out every little thing that the track doesn’t want. Cut back it to pure guts! The theme of (character) 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 count on nothing much less from Anne Wichmann and her blood relations. Every monitor is called after one of many 5 character 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 filled 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 needed to maintain the music on the punk fringe of put up punk or the minimal fringe of grunge, there are nonetheless parts of drone and darkwave within the background manufacturing and tone of the album, respectively. SuperWAV’s first EP, 2018’s Parts 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 right this moment in each tune.
It doesn’t matter what you name this new Wichmann mission, followers will possible see the sister-brother duo going forwards and backwards over the traces of analog and digital in some ways because the proceed to develop the mission. It appears to be a focal point for each of them. Within the meantime, SuperWAV are constructing a brilliant wave of a discography and followers ought to count on the sudden from this dynamic musical duo.
aTypical is out now and may be streamed on Spotify.
