The sounds come together so naturally, as if it’s never been any other way. The track epitomizes this sound, with a unique and self-evident blend of reggae, chillout and rock. The answer is fairly simple This album will see them continue to be a singular proposition in a world fall of “The Next (insert name here).” If that all sounds a bit grandiose, just listen to new song The Game for evidence. Where do Milky Chance fit in the future, you may ask, as they embark on Album no.3. Like its forerunner “Blossom,” the album was produced with Tobias Kuhn. How much depth can a light-hearted pop song actually have? “Mind the Moon” gives you the answer. The new tracks are an easy listen with catchy melodies and a laid-back vibe – but there is depth that hooks the listener beyond the first impression. Mind the Moon succeeds in embodying this paradox and sees Dausch and Rehbein achieve the transition from a fairytale pop phenomenon to the truly gifted songwriters that they’ve always been. While they started off with a smooth, minimalist sound, their second album added distinguished layers that any muso couldĪppreciate. Īfter the success of Sadnecessary and Blossom, their third album Mind the Moon is nothing less than the distillation of their songwriting spirit. Lead singles Cocoon & Doing Good embodied their approach & it was a hugely successful album, amassing hundreds of millions of plays across streaming platforms, and more Gold & Platinum records came tumbling in worldwide, and they went on to play to 241 shows across 41 countries. The band chose to hold strong to what made them so popular, but adding far more layers in quality learned on the road. This album faced the oh-so-common question of whether to keep to what brought success or develop into something that changed with the winds of the current chart trends.
That debut album, Sadnecessary, that boasts other successful singles Down By The River& Flashed Junk Mind, went on to become a multi-platinum record in various countries that saw this German duo play on US late night shows like Fallon, Kimmel & O’Brien and garner every major worldwide press outlet that had an interest in music.įast-forward a few years to 2017 & the band launched their second album Blossom. Like a Darwinian success story, Milky Chance quickly adapted to their new found surroundings & pulled together an album & was touring the world within months.
That moment they uploaded it to Youtube was about 6 yrs ago, but the fact it’s one of the most Shazamed songs of all time tells you all you need to know. More specifically it was a unique sounding folktronica song that spanned across most commercial & alternative radio playlists across the globe.
One of their first songs, however, quickly changed things – It was Stolen Dance.
Getting together to make music in the early days was less about plotting global success, it was instead more about having fun. They met at school, growing-up listening to Bob Marley, Hendrix & Red Hot Chilli Peppers to name but a few. Milky Chance are Philipp Dausch and Clemens Rehbein. It’s a story of two unlikely lads, but it’s also one of two incredibly talented lads that created something different that separates them from any other popular artists you know. Who would have imagined a mainstream global success story for two young, German men from a fairly small industrial town named Kassel having a hefty number of Australians 14,000 km’s away booking tickets to see them perform live every time they come to town. You have that metal wall of Rammstein that sticks in front of most onlookers living outside of their borders, oh and there’s Kraftwerk. Many dreams of the German musician folk usually fall flat at the starting line, if you were to look at how most fair against their other countrymen in history.
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