Leftovers - Electric Energy, New Album

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With their third album, the Viennese band Leftovers brings concentrated energy to the stage. Four musicians, a shared sound, multifaceted lyrics, and a good portion of cohesion. - "ES KANN SEIN, DASS ALLES ENDET" (IT'S POSSIBLE THAT EVERYTHING ENDS) is the name of the new and third album by the Viennese fast-lane-madness band Leftovers. A good title, which, however, definitely does not apply to the band itself, which has matured in the best possible way with this album – and at the same time continues to burn brightly.The author Eric Pfeil recently wrote a eulogy in a column for "Rolling Stone" about the romantic idea of the band as a gang of friends. A rock band, according to Pfeil, is a "breeding ground for mischief" with "erratic ambitions," and founding one is "among the most meaningful undertakings for young people ever."Perhaps Eric Pfeil was thinking of the Viennese band Leftovers when he penned this fiery appeal. What it means to turn the world upside down with your friends, Leftovers has been celebrating for three albums now in an electrifyingly invigorating way. The new album, "ES KANN SEIN, DASS ALLES ENDET," released on October 11, 2024, is now more than ever the 'everyone-does-everything-record' of this band – and in that respect, the most collaborative Leftovers music to date. All four have written lyrics, sung, everything merges and reinforces each other. Often you don't know who is singing or doing whatever, but that's not important: Everything on this astonishingly stunning album is Leftovers.The perhaps not so surprising, by no means self-evident thing about it: Anna Grob, Leon Eder, Leonid Sushonund, Alex Waismayer, whose names we are writing out here for once, before we call them Anna, Leon, Leonid, and Alex again, are indeed four highly different individuals. Who naturally feel, perceive, dream differently, yes: are. But that's precisely the point! It is their differences that make Leftovers not only greater than the sum of its parts, but unbeatable. "We worked for the songs, not for our ego," says Alex.On "MÜDE" (TIRED) in 2023, Leftovers sang about chronic overwhelm, panic attacks, toxic relationships, and other catastrophes of adolescence; now they are already one step further. "ES KANN SEIN, DASS ALLES ENDET" is about the power of community, about supporting each other in dark times, about the longing for love and the absence thereof. During production, separations occurred, new bonds formed, others stabilized, all against the backdrop of major global crises.The band actually didn't want to record a new album this year at all. Not again! After countless concerts and two albums in as many years, they wanted to take things a bit more relaxed. Release one or two EPs, maybe another song here and there, just put out what's ready. But then it turned out completely differently: "We talked to colleagues, and they said: 'Real bands make albums, not EPs,'" says drummer Leon, "we adopted this attitude."This music still feels like a catharsis, is chronically over-the-top, sometimes noisy to the pain threshold. The lyrics oscillate between functional poetry, DADA, punk, and are therefore as immediate as the music. So far, so Leftovers. But you also hear that the band has worked on these rich, profound pieces more thoroughly than ever before. "The demands on our own music have grown," confirms Leon. It fits that Leftovers for the first time ever engaged in a truly collaborative effort with two producers (Georg Gabler, Sven Regener).Leftovers have grown up. In the best and most mature way possible."It's possible that everything ends"? Sure, every