Ruby Tuesday | NICK & JUNE

In the organizer's words:

Nick & June float in a glittering fog of trilling synthesizers, gentle beat and drum pulses and vibrating organ sounds. Embedded in dark reverb guitars, the bitter-sweet paired voices of Suzie-Lou Kraft and Nick Wolf lead through euphorically staged restraint and spun ramifications of thought. An idiosyncratic, abstract sound emerges and flows into lonely, beautiful indie folk and dream pop. Where parallels used to be drawn with Bon Iver, Damien Rice or Angus & Julia Stone, today Beach House, Mazzy Star and Lana del Rey also wave through the reverb veil.

After their last successful album "My November My" and a long creative break, the indie duo released their new mini-album "Beach Baby, Baby" in May 2023. It's cinematic: the songs are atmospheric, with a warm and coarse-grained production. Spacious, with plenty of room for enchanting melodies and the harmoniously merging voices of the two - with vivid lyrics that set your head spinning. If "Beach Baby, Baby" were a movie, it would probably be a washed-out analog film from Sofia Coppola's early work. In the studio and on stage, Nick & June circle between guitars, ukuleles, shimmering mandolins and deep basses, between old Casio keyboards and echoing wind instruments, playful percussion, drum machines and distorted glockenspiel sounds.

"A pearl (...) very delicate, beautiful indie pop. Mazzy Star meets Lana del Rey, that's the very best dream pop" (SWR)

"Haunting and gloomy (...) a beautiful album that deserves that we take our time and immerse ourselves" (BR 2)

"Great songs" (MDR Kultur)

"This music hurts in all the right ways. It's poetic, unfiltered, and uncompromisingly graceful through and through. (...) For fans of Death Cab for Cutie, The xx, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens..."