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 Junked 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.
One of their first songs, however, quickly changed things - It was StolenDance. Morespecificallyitwasauniquesoundingfolktronicasongthatspanned across most commercial & alternative radio playlists across the globe. Getting together to make music in the early days was less about plotting global success, it was instead more about having fun. Milky Chance are Philipp Dausch and Clemens Rehbein. They met at school, growing-up listening to Bob Marley, Hendrix & Red Hot Chilli Peppers to name but a few. 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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