Lupid - Drahtseilakt

Tobias Hundt was going through a strange phase in his life. Based in Berlin, he was feeling reflective and trying to understand the relationships within his friendship group. In  order to do so, he bought himself a journal and started making entries to try and rationalise the way he was feeling. As an award winning singer/songwriter a the helm of an evangelical pop group, he had started to feel a sense of lost identity. Strangely as he rationalised his thoughts, his record deal came to an end. He suddenly felt free to go and be who he wished, make friends he wanted and create how ever he felt most inspired to.



Out of this period of confusion Lupid was born. Alongside two members of his former band, Patrick and Markus, the trio started to explore a more electronic sound. Drahtseilakt is the trio's second album, following in the wake of 2018's Am Ende des Tages and delivers a more rounded sound. Lupid have grown into their identity as a group.

With echoes of the current German pop scene, there are shadows of Mo-Trip, Adel Tawil, Wincent Weiss and Mark Forster throughout Drahtseilakt, yet simultaneously it feels like a open book into the hearts and souls of the trio at Lupid's core without any real need to draw those comparisons to their contemporaries.

Opening with the endearingly demanding refrain of Lieb mich jetzt, the album arrives at its first highlight very quickly. The real and raw lyrics of Happy End show clearly the tumultuous time experience by Tobias, but they are delivered in a perfect pop anthem. The retrospective Millionen Errinerungen could easily be a single from the wonderful Lea, but the Tobias' bouncy delivery gives it a uniquely Lupid edge.

Teaming up with the talented Revelle for Ich vermisse nichts gives the record a perfectly formed radio single, but it is the clever lyrics of iriS, an ode to Siri, that shows a very different side to the trio. With its closest parallels to Mark Forster, the rousing closer Nicht für Gold could well take the trio to stadium level success.

Drahtseilakt is a very impressive sophomore record. It is delivered by a band willing to play the radio game, yet manage to maintain a distinctive edge to their sound.



Drahtseilakt is available now