Quiccheโs debut album Frisia, released on April 11th via the ever-iconic R&S Records, is deeply introspective and genre-swirling debut from Marc Grรผnhรคuser (aka Quicche). Written and recorded in complete solitude in a remote house in Northern Germany, โFrisiaโ carries that bone-deep stillness you only find in isolation and then cracks it open with emotion that burns quietly but fiercely. The 33-second โIntroโ wastes no time setting the tone, plunging you into a fog of shimmering ambience haunted by something darker lurking underneath. Youโre already inside his headspace. And from there, the album unfolds like a confessional whispered across a snowy field.
โCyan IIโ dapples like a silk curtain, with gentle piano ripples and Quiccheโs voice brushing against your ears like a sigh you werenโt meant to hear. His delivery is soft, trailing, and devastatingly vulnerable, especially when he resignedly sings, โshe is all I know.โ Itโs indie-folk-meets-sadboy-electronica, but in the best, most elegant way.
Then โIn Their Bedโ flips the mood with pulsing, strobing beats and vocals dipped in reverb and distortion, his words barely distinguishable but still aching with feeling. Itโs like eavesdropping on heartbreak through a wall of synthsโchaotic, dreamy, irresistible.
By the time the closer and also recently released single, โRed Eyes,โ hits, Quicche is in full form. Grounded by thick, driving beats and layered with shimmering textures, the track pulls you into its melancholic beauty before unexpectedly slipping in the eerie innocence of childrenโs voices in the bridge.
Frisia doesnโt belong to any one genre, and it doesnโt care to. Itโs avant-garde colliding with pop, pain mingling with peace, grief wrapped in groove. Itโs raw, intimate, a little hauntedโand 100% worth your mopey times. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan