When YEDM initially interviewed German darkwave powerhouse and multimedia artist Anne Wichmann mid-pandemic, we lined a bunch of matters, from the COVID lockdown to her movies to her usually “tough” psyche, however the truth that she had additionally made music together with her brother, guitarist Volker Wichmann, within the early 00s. The partnership presumably ended when Anne moved to Brooklyn from their native Hamburg, Germany. Now, nearly 20 years later, the duo have reunited (though they nonetheless dwell on completely different continents) to create SuperWAV, a stripped down rock mission that simply launched its second EP, aTypical.

Given Anne’s largely darkwave and electro background and the truth that the siblings seemingly had to make use of lots of digital tech to create the music collectively on account of their bodily distance, SuperWAV is surprisingly sparse in terms of digital musical components. They’re current, however the pair has been decidedly centered on brass tacks with each their debut EP, Parts, and the just-dropped aTypical. In response to Anne:

We needed the songs to be simple, direct and in your face. Principally: Let’s take out every thing that the track doesn’t want. Scale back it to pure guts! The theme of (character) archetypes is a posh one, and its exploration is including a considerate layer to the music.

Regardless of the stripped-down, naked bones rock really feel to aTypical, it’s additionally definitely true that it’s a really nuanced EP. One may anticipate nothing much less from Anne Wichmann and her blood relations. Every observe is called after one of many 5 character archetypes; each the lyrics and music are supposed to be an interpretation of every one. “The Lover,” for instance, is tough and passionate and explores the outdated adage, “love is blind” within the lyrics, whereas “The Harmless” is stuffed with ambient echo and the lyrics talk about the inevitable destruction of innocence.

Dubbed “stoner rock” by the band themselves, followers of Anne’s former tasks will wrestle to search out the connection to her outdated darkwave work however it’s there in delicate methods. Whereas they needed to maintain the music on the punk fringe of put up punk or the minimal fringe of grunge, there are nonetheless components of drone and darkwave within the background manufacturing and tone of the album, respectively. SuperWAV’s first EP, 2018’s Parts had extra apparent connections to electronica, however the backing manufacturing, association and engineering of aTypical relied on that darkwave information from previous tasks, based on Volker.

It’s a lot enjoyable to work collectively once more, and thrilling to search out new methods of collaborating throughout such a protracted distance. For ATYPICAL it appears like we picked up the place RAWJAW (the Wichmanns’ earlier band within the early 00s) ended – but discovering our personal sound of as we speak in each tune.

It doesn’t matter what you name this new Wichmann mission, followers will seemingly see the sister-brother duo going forwards and backwards over the traces of analog and digital in some ways because the proceed to develop the mission. It appears to be a focal point for each of them. Within the meantime, SuperWAV are constructing a brilliant wave of a discography and followers ought to anticipate the surprising from this dynamic musical duo.

aTypical is out now and might be streamed on Spotify.