Laconically and with cheerful, unsparing pathos, the angry melancholic Tobias Bamborschke misses the hopeless sobriety of everyday life.
Isolation Berlin is undisputedly one of the most exciting German-language bands right now, in no small part thanks to the lyrics of its singer, Tobias Bamborschke. Fresh, clever, and insistent, he sings about a world that doesn’t make things easy for him. Bamborschke’s poems, thoughts, and dive bars are no less hard hitting. Here is someone who confronts his own fragility with everything he’s got; who fights back with bitter humor when brutal reality foils his longing for genuine feeling.
With an almost uncanny lightness, pleasure, and melody, Bamborschke leads us along unpoetic streets, through alcoholic parks, and on hair-raising S-Bahn rides into mental abysses filled with sparkling verbal imagery for emotional worlds and supposedly everyday things.
