AB Syndrom

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The song Flaggschiff kicked off AB Syndrom 's rise to fame in 2017, with which the band achieved their first radio airplay and now more than 2.5 million streams on Spotify. The Berlin musicians have been completely DIY and polarizing right from the start. This means that everything from the entire music production and artwork to the music videos is consistently produced in-house and released on the self-founded indie label. And this consistency can be heard and felt.
Unusual electronic sounds and intricate beats form the basis for the poetry woven into the music. Bennet's extremely personal and autobiographical lyrics offer a deep insight into the life of the soul. Through striking vocal alienation and lyrical abstraction, the songs are given space for their own references despite all subjectivity. The focus on the personal also characterizes AB Syndrom's live shows. All they have on stage is Anton's drum set with pads and a keyboard, with which the duo adapts the electronic sound of the album for the stage. Everything is created in the moment: no backing tracks, no lifeless show to a pre-recorded tape.
Since Flaggschiff, AB Syndrom have had two exciting album cycles: 2019 with Mine on tour through Germany, Switzerland and Austria, followed shortly afterwards by concerts in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Manila. 2020 Frontalcrash album release in the Corona lockdown and subsequent streaming concerts at DLF Nova and c/o pop, among others, all alone from a huge former thermal power station. Then in 2022, post-corona restart: they generated radio airplay across Germany with the album Tut mir gut Tut mir Leid and went on their first headlining tour in winter 2022-23 - including a live concert on radioeins. The band achieved further recognition in the scene through features with Novaa, a remix for Ätna's remix album Remade By Desire, and two joint songs with Mine, which took them to Böhmermann's ZDF Magazin Royale, to festivals in front of 5,000 people and most recently to the Elbphilharmonie.
Blindflug, the first single from AB Syndrom's new album, is a song about the fear of not being enough with one's music; about the fear that after all the albums, concerts and written lyrics, all that remains is sad panting after one's own idols, amateurish bumbling, simply no art.
Packing this feeling into a song is typical of AB Syndrom, as is the radical disclosure of their own fears and feelings in general. They thus form a counter-draft to the fake it till you make it attitude of the resurgent Alpha Males, in which any admission of insecurity inevitably banishes you to the realm of the losers aka Omegas (or even worse: women). Fittingly, AB Syndrom have brought a musician on board for this approach, Trille, who stands for precisely this radical openness and, together with the duo, embodies the idea that a world in which everyone can talk about their own fears is ultimately a better world for everyone.
Musically, this is accompanied by chugging synths that initially stutter hesitantly and later pour out in an ecstatic surge over a pulsating bass. This is dilettantism at best in its distorted self-perception.