This band has to make this music, which is why there is such urgency underlying Leftovers songs. Nevertheless, something audible has happened in the production of “Es kann sein, dass alles endet” (“It may be that everything ends”): this music still resembles catharsis, is chronically overexcited, sometimes noisy to the point of pain. The lyrics oscillate between functional poetry, DADA and punk, and are therefore just as immediate as the music. So far, so Leftovers.

“When the world ends, I'll be with you,” sing all of The Leftovers together in the outro of their most powerful, epoch-making song to date. It's called “Wenn die Welt untergeht” (“When the World Ends”), an all-consuming maelstrom of an epic poem that overwhelms and sweeps you with it in equal measure, culminating at the very end of this wonderful album in just under seven minutes of the Leftovers' different feelings, fears and longings bundled together in a wonderfully harmonious cacophony and a faint glimmer of hope. And no, with this band that's not a contradiction .

But you can also hear that the band has worked on these rich, profound pieces more thoroughly than ever before. “The demands we place on our own music have grown,” confirms Leon. In keeping with this, Leftovers has embarked on a truly collaborative effort with two producers for the first time.

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Grenzkontrolle

Grenzkontrolle are the furious four-piece collective we need right now! Lyrics about unaffordable housing, somewhere between Fehlfarben, Neue Deutsche Welle, but also the rage of US rap.