Blush Always

In the organizer's words:

With her debut album, Leipzig-based singer-songwriter Blush Always comes at just the right time. Due out in September 2023, "You Deserve Romance" is a self-empowerment manifesto with crashing indie rock guitars and irresistible melodies of captivating urgency.

Considering the playful ease with which Blush Always sings, plays, performs, yes: inhabits her songs on her debut album "You Deserve Romance," you don't want to believe for a moment that this woman has supposedly been doing all this for barely two years: playing guitar, singing along with it, performing with a band. In much the same way as Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy or Beabadoobee, Blush Always has distilled the essence of punk-inspired indie guitar music of the past 40 years with great pop sensibility. On "You Deserve Romance," she renegotiates the insights gained in this way entirely - for her time, from the perspective of her generation.

And yet it's true: Blush Always has been playing the piano since she was four years old, but she is still at the very beginning of her career as a songwriter, singer and guitarist. So far, she has only a handful of concerts behind her and her "Postpone EP", which was released in spring 2022 and which she arranged and produced together with the indie rock band Leoniden. Their guitarist Lennart Eicke had discovered Blush Always at one of her early Kiel concerts, so to speak.