Berlin-based avant-garde pop trio Painting is giving AI a human voice on their new album Snapshot Of Pure Attention — out on April 11th, by Berlin’s Sinnbus and the Isle of Eigg, Scotland’s Lost Map Records.
A breathlessly unpredictable collision of punk energy, math-rock time signatures, techno beats, free-jazz sax solos, blaring synthesisers and tumbling call-and-response vocals, “Snapshot Of Pure Attention” is the incredible second album by fast-rising Berlin trio Painting. It’s the much-anticipated follow-up to Painting’s critically acclaimed 2022 debut album Painting Is Dead, which saw them hailed as “the greatest new band in the German pop avant-garde” by Rolling Stone.
Drawing on an expansive and explosive palette ranging from experimental rock and electronic avant-garde sounds to leftfield pop, techno and jazz, Painting’s music is a constantly shifting and refreshing kaleidoscope of sounds that felt like it was fighting to escape the rigid confines of conventional songcraft.
Painting are Theresa Stroetges (vocals, bass, guitar, synthesiser), Christian Hohenbild (vocals, drums, electronics) and Sophia Trollmann (vocals, saxophone, synthesiser). Stroetges and Hohenbild previously performed together in the band Soft Grid, while Trollmann contributed saxophone to one of Stroetges’s solo albums under her Golden Diskó Ship moniker.
A raw annihilation to the lunar plexus, the Berlin-based duo of Ilia Gorovitz and Asja Skrinik is a relentless fusion of industrial, punk, noise rock, and metal, crafted with the precision of a sonic weapon. As a live act, PΞB thrives on intensity, blending elements of Grand Guignol horror, spoken word poetry, and metal-inspired vocal performance to create a viciously throbbing experience both musical and theatrical.
