Fjälla Have Had Enough
“Abbastanza” (“enough”) is the title of a new EP from Fjälla, a quartet from Zurich whose work is released via the intrepid music collective Lauter.
Fjälla – you’ve guessed it: they’ve plucked their name from an IKEA catalogue – are Ulla, Paula, and Emilio, all of them childhood friends, and Anouk, a drummer they ran into more recently. Singing in Swiss German, French, Italian and English, not just because they can, but also to demonstrate their multi-layered approach to life and music, their Bandcamp self-description reads “multilingue Erotic Rock + Guitar Porn”.
Actually, the quartet have come a long way since their first album, released early in 2021, where they presented themselves as an enthusiastic DIY-outfit willing to try anything once. “Abbastanza” is a much more consistent and rockier affair. Heavy in lyrical content – the songs deal with various aspects of depression, traumatic experiences and sexualised violence – it feels heavy even when the actual music isn’t. Post-punky in orientation – Goat Girl spring to mind -, the band like to extend their DIY-approach to their live performances which encompass costumes, choreography, playfully produced one-off merchandise items and anything else that spontaneously might happen. Predictable they ain’t – an exciting prospect they certainly are.
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