miiikecullen
This is honestly album of the year. Listening to Schimmel über Berlin feels like stumbling onto Juju or Tocsin the day they dropped, that rare moment when you realize you’re hearing a classic for the first time.
Favorite track: Schreck.
gnihilo
What a wonderful discovery! When done well, there is nothing better than early Xmal Deutschland worship! An incredible treasure for anyone who could never stop listening to Fetisch.
BILLO 14 is out today.
Schimmel Über Berlin - Eisenmund
Jetzt draußen. Und auf englisch:
The genesis of this record is a fairytale itself. The instrumental recordings were done quite some time ago. After the tapes lay untouched for two years - we recorded the vocals last year and finally finished the record this year. Right on time for foggy november we celebrate its release today.
Written by T-Rex, Việt Phương Vũ, C.Ramisch and Liv Billerbeck
Recording and Mixing: T-Rex @rex_audio_
Mastering: Sasha Stroud (Artifact Audio)
Artwork: Liv B.
Thanks to Iffi for the Vinyl release and to everyone who made this release possible. Yours, Billo
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released November 12, 2025
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Schimmel über Berlin – Eisenmund
Eisenmund, the debut by Berlin-based Schimmel über Berlin is a thing
of pounding, brittle beauty that seeks to continue on from where angst-ridden, early-eighties Berlin left off. Angular, monophonic synths, guitars that slice through with wiry yet melodic urgency, basslines that pulse
with a taut, driven precision and drums that meld everything together.
Liv Billerbeck’s vocals come from the middle distance, drifting between detached and desperate, as if transmitted through a wintery cityscape.
Title track Eisenmund jangles with reedy synths floating over a carpet of bass and mournful vocals dripping with a sense of loss. This mood spills over into the other tracks, like post-punk jewel Schreck with its iridescently lovely guitars.
Eisenmund is sharp, atmospheric, and quietly thrilling - proof that the shadows of the eighties can still dance under today's flickering lights.
The album, immaculately produced by T-Rex, captures that classic
post-punk mood of urban decay, late-night introspection and stubborn sense of motion, which for someone like me, who was there back in the day, seems utterly familiar without ever sinking into mere nostalgia.
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