Jon Cleary - So Swell (2023) Hi Res

Sometimes you just have to kick in the door with a steep thesis: ACCIDENTAL BIRD is perhaps Germany's softest rock band. What does that mean? After all, there are hardly any electric guitars, drum rolls and other rock standards in these songs. But still: The power of these pieces comes from a compositional and content-related compression, which you can only manage if you have gone through the whole "career in music" thing once and finally come to the conclusion: Actually it worked it's about something completely different.

The head and voice behind ACCIDENTAL BIRD is songwriter Stefan Honig, who can already look back on an extensive discography and history as an artist with various projects. But that doesn't matter at all. Over heavy piano chords, raging horns and synthesizers, he sings huge melodies and lyrics that wonder about humanity. In which it's not about always finding answers, but simply about the realization: We can't understand everything, so why is everyone doing it?!

You could call it cinematic widescreen indie. Or softcore for the apocalypse. Or (after The Notwist) finally a band that can easily be sorted on the record shelf next to Frightened Rabbit or Pinegrove. Or stop: Germany's softest rock band, singing in the most beautiful tones about the fact that it might already be too late.