My most major influences from the very beginning have been touché amoré, Pat the Bunny, Refused, Quetschenpaua, Lés Pünks, teen suicide, Against Me!, Pixies, Pg. 99... n probably some more. Additional massive influence for me have since been Chloe Defector, Cricket!, G.L.O.S.S., Chris Burrows, Anarcho Folko and Rosa. In a less direct way, Days n Daze, Stick and Poke, Asian Kung-Fu Generation and Holy Locust have been significant inspirations for me, as well.
Starting at the most recent release, and going down in counter-chronological order. If you want to read the discography in chronological order (which is also the order in which I wrote the comments), you need to scroll all the way down and go back upwards!
I wanted to celebrate the 5th anniversary of describing unity, specifically of my first live show and the release of the 'FCIHTIHTD' single. Scrappy live phone recordings from 2 concerts around the time of those anniversaries, feat. my friend Bananapeelthrowa, who supported me at one of those shows, on guitar, washboard, and vocals.
If you just want to listen to, or download, one of my releases, this should be it! Most of my original songs as describing unity (leaving out all the songs I'm less happy with now, as well as all the doubles), and the best murder of clouds tracks, of the first ~4 years of both projects, all in one album!
I took a break from producing new d.u. releases as a result of some creative burnout, disappointment in the mistakes in my prior work, and overwhelming material pressure and deteriorating mental health, until I was motivated to make this one, inspired by being pissed at the election poster on the streets of Berlin at the time. I recorded songs where I didn't feel like I'd be that upset if I messed it up to get back into producting my stuff, and tbh the A-side is kind of cringe, in the unfunny trying to be ironic way. It's also the only song song in my native language, German, that I wrote for this project.
The B-side is mostly pretty cool though, and I like the synth and bedroom sound of this single a lot!
Oh what, I released this one the same year too?? I took more time this time, but I could have taken it a little slower still. But it's good, it's an EP all around trans* (especially transfem) fights. Sometimes I say it's like each song is about a different incarnation of transmisogynyst ideology. There's many fun music/arrangement things in there too, finaly getting closer to figuring out what I want my music to sound like!
Oki, Down With Cis is a bit of a mess though. Rewrite still in the works (yes, 3 years later).
Then, this EP... Is probably the release I'm retrospectively least happy with. After taking many month for just 2 songs, I decided I want to record more of my songs, and more covers, and need to rush it more.(This came out just 3 months after the 'smugly smiling tower' single). Also, I wanted to try out a much more acoustic-centered and less technical, working with machines, approach to recording, arrangement and production. Which I did, this one is overwhelmingly acoustic instruments (and things that aren't necessarily instruments). It's also quite unclean and not always in time and not always the best performances I could have done, though. Hope u get stuff out of it anyway!
Would u like the numbers code in the title decyphered? hah, u wish! (oki, I'll put the meaning somewhere here on this page, find if u like!)
I really slightly over-thought this one, and took so long for just 2 songs. They're good songs though (I still consider smugly smiling tower one of the best things I've written), and I put a lot of experimental synth weirdness and vibez into both of them! fr, it's kinda cool, I had some fun ideas.
After my debut EP, I took so long putting together ararngements I'm fully happy with, and had made videos of playing a bunch of covers and a couple new original songs, that I put those scrappy recordings onto an album so people can listen to them as MP3s easily. So I made this mostly-covers album as a creative refresher while also working on my next single!
My debut EP, and first longer-form release, that I put all my songs up to that point, and all my musical ideas that I could execute at the time, into. It's specially dedicated to a certain forest occupation that used to exist somewhere in the middle of Germany. I'll never forget that view out one of the treehouses.
On the 11th of October '20, I released my first actual folkpunk single, of the first political song I wrote, which I still love a lot. It's about the cops, and their violence against my friends and accomplices, and decades of it in my neighbourhood.
I'm still proud of that cover btw!
All Cops Are Targets - Smash The Cistem
A covers album I kept ocassionaly updating with new covers I recorded for the following year!
My first release. More some kind of lofi-outsider-electronica-bedroom-punk/pop than folkpunk!