Wallners - End of Circle Tour 2025
Have you felt something today? Joy or surprise? Melancholy or a certain sadness? That’s good. Because only those who feel, live. Those who do not want to remain alone with what they feel will find the perfect emotional accompaniment with the music of the Viennese dreampop band Wallners. Their sometimes acoustic, sometimes electronic, but always warming songs are like good friends you can call whenever you feel like it. Like a blanket you hide under when you can no longer understand the world outside. With “End of Circles,” the band releases their long-awaited debut album. The creed of the album: It’s okay to allow things. It’s important to feel something. Allow it. This is especially true for Wallners concerts: Those who see the band play and hear their music feel safe.
Wallners are Anna, Laurenz, Nino, and Max Wallner. Four siblings from Vienna, Anna and Laurenz are twins. This creates a very special band constellation. The history of rock and pop music knows examples where bands shattered because two brothers quarreled. But four siblings? The secret: When it comes to music, Anna (vocals), Laurenz (piano), Nino (guitar), and Max (bass) don’t need many words. The four intuitively know what an outstanding song needs—and what it doesn’t. Music has always been a big theme in Wallners. Their father runs a piano shop in Vienna. Playing the piano is as natural in this family as watching television is in others. When Nino and Max switched to guitar and bass and Anna discovered her love for singing and her incredible voice, the four became a band of siblings. In 2020, the first Wallners recording “in my mind” was released. Generally, debut singles from bands still sound shaky. This one was already perfect. “With the young band Wallners, sensuality returns to Austrian pop,” wrote “Die Zeit”—and found in the band's sound a counterpoint to the brashness and irony that are so often found in Vienna's indie scene. “in my mind” had been out for a while when the film director Christian Petzold coincidentally heard the song on the radio. He was writing the script for his successful film “Roter Himmel” at the time, and he immediately realized: This is the song for the film. Not one of many—but the one song. In 2021, the first Wallners EP “Prolog I” followed, then the single “Dracula.” But just as things were about to take off, a pause began. “We had started in the middle of the pandemic,” recalls pianist Laurenz, “and when life normalized again, we first had to reorganize ourselves.”
When they work on their music, the clocks tick a little differently at Wallners. This results in the songs on the recordings as well as the live arrangements sounding incredibly balanced and at peace within themselves. “We work at a leisurely pace because we are active in our own cosmos,” says bassist Max. One can imagine it like this: The four Wallner siblings are visiting their parents. One of them is lying on the floor in the living room and starts to play. The others join in, listen, and harmonize, including singer Anna, whose simultaneously dark and warm voice shapes many of the songs: “I let myself be guided by what I feel, find words for it, or simply linguistic sounds from which lyrics emerge later.” This also explains why this group—unlike many other acts from Vienna—sings in English: Wallners' music isn’t concrete. The sensual beauty of the sound emerges in the abstract. And in feelings like nostalgia. Not meant as a conservative worldview, but as a concept of longing for a time when there was a more direct connection between body and soul, mind and heart—or that there will be again. In this sense, Wallners concerts offer an almost timeless experience that one should not miss.
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