LIONLION

LIONLION is a four-piece indie rock band based out of the south of Germany, centred around the identical twins Matthias & Michael Rückert.
After the release of their critically acclaimed debut album 'The Atlas Idea' (2018), their follow-up EP ‘Rise & Fall’ will be out in October and give a foretaste of what is to come with their second album ‘Perspective’ (spring 2020).

Earlier this year the band got off to a great start in their home country with ‘Another Go’. A band-music epic about the highs & lows in love and friendship. ‘Oceans Rise’ followed - a song which is also the central theme of the upcoming LP. Just in time for a busy festival season with 20 shows i.a. in London, Amsterdam and all over Germany.

The singles received very positive reviews in online media around the globe & plenty of airplay and features on radio stations across Germany. The cinematographic music video for ‘Oceans Rise’ was praised as an “aesthetic marvel” by the press and Arch Daily (the world’s most visited architecture website) featured it in great detail.

Now, LIONLION are set to release the third single ‘Language’ and remain true to their principles. In the year of the 100th anniversary of German ‘Bauhaus’ architecture, LIONLION are producing their videos in the reduced and minimalistic vocabulary of the famous modernist architectural style, which serves as a visual guideline and an encouragement to keep a clear head and arrange one’s course of thought.

All this draws a clear contrast to the ups and downs in the history of the band – and the twins in particular – with the reflective and dreamy mindset they so beautifully display in their music. At the same time, their songs always radiate great confidence: the brothers are not just united by their differences in character, but even more so by their harmonious similarity, making them a songwriting duo par excellence.

LIONLION have found the sweet spot between poetry and objectivity, motion & rest, grand gestures and quiet nuances. Their world of sound calls to mind the drive of Mutemath, Keane’s catchy melodies, the charm of The Notwist and Muse’s grandeur. Brash Britpop from the turn of the millennium touches a spheric James-Bond-soundtrack, Sgt. Pepper sends his love to Pink Floyd’s sound spheres and it all wraps up gently with stark, melancholy confidence on the piano.