BERLIN
A story of arrival and awakening, an odyssey through a city that promises everything
Record Release Event
Join us for the official record release event of "Berlin" at Privatclub Berlin. Experience the album live for the first time, meet the artist, and celebrate this musical journey through the heart of Berlin.
Date
July 25th, 2025
Time
Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM
The Story
Split into two halves, the album weaves through the protagonist's descent into decadence and confusion, and ultimately, their struggle to claw their way back to something resembling meaning.
West Side
The first chapter opens with Berlin (West)—an introduction to the city that lures the protagonist in with its neon glow, its promise of freedom, and its open arms. But these arms are deceptively wide, swallowing those who walk into the city like anonymous faces in a crowd.
The city pulses with an intoxicating energy, filled with "cigarettes and class A dreams," a heady mix of allure and apathy. And yet, as the protagonist moves deeper into its streets, he begins to sense the familiar sting of déjà vu. He's not alone in his disorientation. In Berlin, everyone is looking for something, but no one finds it.
S41
A track that encapsulates the chaos of life here. On a Saturday night, three beers deep, our protagonist feels like "twice the man" he is, until he punches someone in the face and finds himself facing a black eye, a lost contact lens, and friends scattered like breadcrumbs in a haze.
The Ringbahn train symbolises freedom and imprisonment—circling endlessly, always moving but never going anywhere. It's the perfect metaphor for Berlin itself: a place where the freedom to get lost is as certain as the promise that you'll never be found.
Quarantine
By the time we reach Quarantine, the protagonist is no longer just lost in the city's chaos; he's confined by it. The metaphorical jailer whispers from the track's edges as isolation takes hold. He's bouncing off walls, glued to a TV that offers fleeting escape, while real life slips away.
It's a prison of his own making, bound by the substances that promise release, but only deliver more entrapment. In his solitude, the city becomes a distant hum, and the protagonist is left wondering, "Do you know the way? Can you show it to me?"
Gold
In Gold, the protagonist's inner reckoning takes on a spiritual turn. He prays for riches, for a solution to his misery, but the answers he receives are not the ones he wants. There is no miracle, no sudden windfall. "I pray for gold enough to give away," but God doesn't answer in the way he expects.
Instead, there's only silence. Here, the protagonist's search for meaning is interrupted by his inability to hear the whispers of truth: that the real gold is not material, but internal—self-awareness, humility, and self-change.
TV Screen
TV Screen marks the shift—the beginning of anger. The protagonist, though still tangled in his media addiction, starts to feel the spark of rebellion. The TV, which once numbed him, now fuels his rage. He sees the world in flashes of crisis and catastrophe, but this panic gives way to something else: the first hints of motivation to act.
The screen's chaos mirrors the internal chaos, but somewhere beneath the fury, a sense of purpose is beginning to stir.
East Side
On the B Side, we move deeper into the protagonist's journey towards redemption. Long Way Down opens with the stark realisation that, despite the allure of the city, the protagonist is now far from home—and there's no clear path to follow.
"It's a long way down, with nowhere to go, nobody to be running to." This track marks the first true reckoning with the consequences of his actions: the crash after the high, the fall from grace. The illusion of escape in Berlin has shattered, and all that's left is the cold truth of isolation.
In the Gym
But in the Gym, the protagonist begins to fight back. No longer the passive observer, he takes active steps towards disentangling himself from toxic relationships. The breakup with his cheating girlfriend becomes a metaphor for his broader separation from the toxic cycles that defined his life.
The biting sarcasm of "busy sleeping at a meeting in the gym" is a triumphant declaration of no longer having time for distractions—his future, however uncertain, is finally in his own hands.
For the Ride
For the Ride is the declaration of freedom. The dead-end job and the monotonous routine are abandoned as the protagonist throws caution to the wind. The metaphorical "shift in drive" symbolises a choice: to leave behind the grind and embrace the unknown.
"Who cares if the sky is falling?" The protagonist no longer cares about the risk, only about seizing the opportunity for adventure and personal growth. The city no longer holds him captive; he's choosing a new path, one where he's fully in control.
Berlin (East)
And then, Berlin (Part 2) returns to the city—but this time with eyes wide open. It's no longer a place of endless distraction. The protagonist has weathered the storm, and now he stands at the crossroads of possibility.
He's not blind to the city's charms, but he's no longer entranced by them. Berlin is no longer a labyrinth he's lost in; it's a place he's learned to navigate with purpose. The city is still "poor but sexy," but the protagonist understands now that the key to surviving here is not surrendering to its decadence, but finding the strength to leave it behind when it no longer serves him.
Through Berlin, the journey is both physical and emotional, traversing the streets of a city teeming with the allure of freedom and the darkness of its own cycles. It is a story of getting lost and, in the end, learning how to find oneself again.
The protagonist's struggle against the city, against substances, against himself, is one of breaking free from a world of decadence and self-doubt, moving toward a place where responsibility, agency, and self-love finally become the currency. The album concludes with Berlin (East)—not with a perfect resolution, but with a sense of quiet determination. The protagonist has come full circle—not as someone who has "figured it all out," but as someone who has finally begun to understand what really matters.