Rock music is dead? Not with this band. Nobody has rethought and rethought rock music as radically in the past ten years as Bilderbuch from Austria. After the band was founded in 2005 as a school band, it evolved over the years and in 2012 found its current line-up with singer and guitarist Maurice Ernst, guitarist Michael Krammer, bassist Peter Horazdovski and drummer Philipp Scheibl. With the albums »Schick Schock« and »Magic Life«, Bilderbuch deconstructed their previous indie rock, integrated R&B, hip hop and dealt with the issues of their generation in a congenially casual Dada aesthetic.

The sky was now open, Bilderbuch had created a huge field for experimentation, which they explored in every conceivable direction in the years to come. With the digital double release "mea culpa" and "Vernissage My Heart", Bilderbuch integrated soft psychedelic soul and art pop, and on their current album "Gelb ist das Feld" they indulge in the rock music of the 1970s. Today, this band can combine all of the styles mentioned and much more - we haven't even talked about disco, two-step, and above all: hooks, hooks, hooks - again and again and refine them with their pop sophistication, because Bilderbuch themselves have such a strong signature that everything they do is ultimately one thing above all: Bilderbuch.

This is of course not least due to the unique texts of Maurice Ernst, which the "Spiegel" once described as "alternating between zeitgeist aphorisms, Dada and checker poses".

There is no other band comparable to this one, and not just in the German-speaking world. Bilderbuch have saved the concept of the band as a gang, as a group of friends, with extravagance, glamour and never-fading inspiration in the digital space. And every time we think we've just understood them, they're somewhere else entirely. For example, with the psychedelia of the current Bilderbuch EP »Softpower«. There's only one thing that really comes with every new Bilderbuch release: hits.