INDIEVERCITY: WOULD + MARLON HAMMER

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INDIEVERCITY: WOULD + MARLON HAMMER
26.06.25 | 18:00 | Lattenplatz

WOULD:
With *Take A Break* WOULD releases his third album - a warm, sometimes wistful, but surprisingly light-footed work that oscillates somewhere between Wilco, Teenage Fanclub and Californian West Coast melancholy. After the introspective debut (*Be Okay To Not Be Okay*) and the gloomy, wintry follow-up (*Get Away*), *Take A Break* sounds like a deeply breathed summer afternoon - with sunshine on the skin and a few shadows in the head.Matthias Schwettmann, the man behind WOULD, once again wrote, recorded and produced the album single-handedly - supported only by Dennis Reher on drums, with whom he played together in Helland High Water until 2019 (now Men and the Man), and Sebastian Windhorst, who enhances Neil Young's "Out On The Weekend" with a fine lapsteel guitar.Even if there is no clear thematic thread running through the ten songs, the album unfolds its own, loosely connected mood: an album that doesn't impose itself, but stays with you for a long time. *Take A Break* seems more intuitive, more playful - sometimes sad, often gently optimistic and with a great feel for small gestures and big melodies. songs like "About Time", "Wheels" or the title track tell of searching, losing and finding again - sometimes fragmentary, sometimes direct, always with feeling.

MARLON HAMMER:
Marlon Hammer is undoubtedly one of the most exciting pop newcomers of his generation at the moment: on the platform TikTok, the exceptional talent with the characteristic voice already has over 90,000 fans behind him, on Instagram there are already over 20,000, his single
"Angenehm Kühl" has already broken through the 1 million streams mark on Spotify. In September, Marlon performed his single "Zu Dir Fällt Mir Nichts Mehr Ein" on the VOX primetime TV show "The Piano". The newcomer has already shown on his previous singles that Marlon also has an extraordinary feel for good hooks with that certain something. Multi-talented Marlon sings, plays guitar and piano, writes his own music and lyrics and creates outstanding songs for which you will search in vain for reference points in the German-speaking music scene.
in vain. "I started making street music at a really young age - and the funny thing is: to this day, the street is the place where I get the most excited," admits Marlon about his beginnings in the pedestrian zone, where he very successfully supplemented his pocket money at an early age. Since then, he has worked intensively on his vision and his sound, and continues to follow his own individual path.