Pauls Jets
In 2024, Pauls Jets returned with two new singles: KISS ME IN THE MORNING and DIDN'T MAKE IT. With tempo, drum machines, and post-internet slang, they are heralding a new era of the Jets and are supposed to be precursors for the long-awaited fourth album, which is set to be released at the end of October.
Pauls Jets (also known as 'the Jets') appeared relatively suddenly in Vienna in the second third of the 2010s. FM4 plays songs like DIESE VILLA IST VERLASSEN and ÜBEN ÜBEN ÜBEN; the young band performs the song ICH KOMME IN DEN PARK on the well-known television show 'Willkommen Österreich'. Soon, the band is a small new force in the Austrian music scene. But what do they actually want? The 2019 album ALLE SONGS BISHER does not provide an answer but rather presents a plea against the narrow-mindedness of indie pop with 16 tracks, or more accurately, shouts it out. Dada meets pathos here, with slogans like "Where do you stand with your art, baby" colliding with pop pearls like the slacker love song '22703'. It is less about the content than the questions and contrasts the band creates; there are pop songs that want to serve pop as well as undermine it. The Jets go on a grand tour and play over 60 concerts in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
The second album HIGHLIGHTS ZUM EINSCHLAFEN (2020) paints a somewhat darker picture with titles like BLIZZARD or DIE DUNKLEN PRINZESSINNEN DER NACHT and grants insights between tour life and the lonely four walls at home. Relationships, longing, and coming-of-age melancholy define HIGHLIGHTS ZUM EINSCHLAFEN, which is adorned with the cover of a sad knight.
With the third album JAZZFEST (2022) and signing with the Berlin label Staatsakt, the Jets take a new direction and formally work through chance, sound, and montage. They invite to the fictional 'Jazzfest', which decorates both the album cover and a series of 200 T-shirts. Celebrated shows and reviews followed: "An album of the year," writes Wiener Zeitung. Musikexpress titles: "the masters of projection surface pop zoom on the meta rocket," while Falter sees the album as "packed with catchy yet quirky songs between oddity and earworms," and der Standard speaks of "crashing joy of life with guitars."
After an extensive break, the Jets are now crafting new material in secret laboratories. The question hangs in the air like a chemical scent: How will the Jets sound in 2025? The unknown beckons with a wink.
The Jets are Romy Jakovcic, Kilian Hanappi, and Paul Buschnegg.
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