#allan align

Now all you do is growing older.

Ever listened to German music? Yeah, you probably love Rammstein. Or classic Krautrock bands. But did you know some 2% of contemporary German musicians make listenable music too? One of them is small-town boy Max Gruber aka Drangsal. His mixture of 80s synth sounds, post punk vibes and dark lyrics is not as cheesy as it sounds - it’s ironic, it’s catchy and it’s just really good. 

The Woman Machine interviewed the young musician at a recent festival in Essen, Germany. Despite his edgy Berghain aesthetic (he’s close friends with Iceage’s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, after all!), he’s about the sweetest person we ever interviewed. He loves to cry watching Dirty Dancing. He thinks musicians should pay equal attention to musical and visual aspects (a thing German indie musicians rarely do, it’s considered inauthentic to wear anything else but beat-up Converse from 2005). And he dearly, genuinely loves Morrissey. Having grown up in a small south-German town and recently moved to Berlin, he assumes the position of the edgy, ironically pretentious outsider. Very Moz-esque. Very not German. Listen to his debut single Allan Align below: