Four men, all dressed in black T-shirts and black trousers and with dark beards, pose outdoors in front of a transparent plastic sheet on a stand that is blowing in the wind. The front man of the band Fheels sits in a wheelchair at the front, has his arm resting on his leg and is looking at the camera; behind him are the other three members. The one on the left in the picture is adjusting his T-shirt at the back, the one next to him with a bald head is grabbing his nose, both are also looking at the camera. The fourth looks grimly to the left. A fence and residential blocks can be glimpsed in the background.
Fheels (photo: Sophie Schwarzenberger)
Friday, 1.9.2023
21:40 – 22:20, Palais
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Fheels

»Whenever an identity is transported through a voice, my ears perk up,« says Brückner. »To me, how it sounds is of secondary importance, whether it’s melancholic like Jeff Buckley, quirky like Tom Waits or fragile like Einar Solberg from Leprous.« Fheels, his band, sounds like all of the above and so much more. Brückner’s recitative style of singing, which comes close to the spoken-word freestyle of the »The« bands, always keeps a certain minimum distance from the four-four platitudes of rock music. Where La Dispute would invoke post-hardcore, the Hamburg band echoes the gritty, grunge-rock guitars of Soundgarden and the melodic arcs of Eddie Vedder. The vocal work is carried along in grand fashion by keyboardist Nitzbon and bassist Boysen, while Brückner, trained in both guitar and singing, always opens up surprising new horizons with his unconventional vocal facets.

Four men, all dressed in black T-shirts and black trousers and with dark beards, pose outdoors in front of a transparent plastic sheet on a stand that is blowing in the wind. The front man of the band Fheels sits in a wheelchair at the front, has his arm resting on his leg and is looking at the camera; behind him are the other three members. The one on the left in the picture is adjusting his T-shirt at the back, the one next to him with a bald head is grabbing his nose, both are also looking at the camera. The fourth looks grimly to the left. A fence and residential blocks can be glimpsed in the background.
Fheels (photo: Sophie Schwarzenberger)