Me and My Drummer

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Me and My Drummer
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General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) Indie pop , dream pop , pop
resolution 2018
Website www.meandmydrummer.com
Last occupation
Charlotte Brandi
Matze Pröllochs

Me and My Drummer was a band from Berlin that was under contract with Sinnbus . The music can be assigned to the genres indie , dream pop and pop .

history

Charlotte Brandi and Matze Pröllochs met at the Landestheater Tübingen . There they wrote and played music for stage plays and appeared as extras. Brandi, who has been a singer / songwriter since she was 16 , and Pröllochs, who played drums in his first band at the age of ten, founded Me and My Drummer and moved to Berlin in the summer of 2010 to devote himself entirely to music. In 2011 the recordings for her debut album The Hawk, The Beak, The Prey began in Tobias Siebert's Radio Buellebrueck studio. The first single You're a Runner was released on January 20, 2012. The album was released after their tour with the Norwegian band Einar Stray on May 11, 2012. By the end of 2012, Me and My Drummer were on a European tour; In early 2013, the band played other concerts in Germany with Enno Bunger as part of the Tv Noir Concerts series . In February 2014 Me and My Drummer were on tour in Germany with Kat Frankie under the project name "me & katfrankie & mydrummer".

The band's second studio album entitled Love Is a Fridge was released in February 2016 and entered the German album charts. After further concerts in Germany and Europe and the publication of a last song together, the band announced their breakup in September 2018 in order to devote themselves to their own projects; Brandi will release a solo album in early 2019.

style

Stylistically, the band's music can be classified in the areas of pop and indie or dream pop . The mostly minimalist sound of piano / keyboard and drums is enriched in places with flat synthesizer sounds and choir passages .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2012 The Hawk, the Beak, the Prey -
First published: May 11, 2012
2016 Love is a fridge DE87 (1 week)
DE
First published: February 12, 2016

Singles

  • 2012: You're a Runner
  • 2012: Heavy Weight
  • 2012: Don't Be So Hot
  • 2015: Blue Splinter View
  • 2016: Pentonville Road
  • 2016: Gun
  • 2017: Bloodmoon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page of the label Sinnbus
  2. ↑ Article in the TAZ from May 11, 2012
  3. ↑ http://radiobuellebrueck.com/#tab3
  4. ↑ http://www.meandmydrummer.com/
  5. ↑ Me And My Drummer split up, Charlotte Brandi releases solo album. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Chart positions Germany