Klaus Johann Grobe - Io tu il loro (2024) [Hi-Res]

Six years have passed since Swiss-based duo Klaus Johann Grobe’s last long player Du bist so symmetrisch. Io tu il loro, their fourth album for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records was written over two weeks in a cabin at the very end of a remote Swiss valley, where the duo came up with their debut full-length Im Sinne der Zeit album in 2014. What started out as simply making music again quickly turned into seriously making a new album. Once decided, the whole thing was finished rather quickly and recorded at David Langhard’s Dala Studio at the end of 2022.

Io tu il loro is an album with a blurry vision and soft limitations. You can somehow feel them looking back on all their work forgivingly and then moving on to what felt right. So here we are with nine tracks full of embracing warmth, so melancholicly welcoming you don’t know if you want to smile or cry. Some might call it timeless, some might call it dad-rock... well, it certainly isn’t disco for the masses, it’s more like, “If I can’t make myself dance after four beers, I can as well go home.”