Two new albums – Nino & Molden: Austria’s music should be heard

Travel to the Belly Stitch Cafe
Mandl is the personified setting of “Love Stories and Marriage Matters” when he moves sadly but honestly through the pitfalls of love and interpersonal relationships. He needs “cats and palm trees” to be happy, nothing more would be necessary. He knows the concerns and needs of people on a “Monday”, tells us “What happened” and brings out his Beatles references in “Strawberry Dream”. Nothing fits between indie pop and singer/songwriterism at Nino, and no one can yearn for belt bars like Rhiz (“Sandy”) or the inevitable end with a western feeling (“Olles hot sei End”). As for all Nino albums, the same applies to “Eis Zeit”: buy it, put it in the record player, lean back, listen and let yourself be carried away to the café belly stitch. Nobody else manages the mixture of melancholy and ambiguous joie de vivre in such a sensitive way.