Liverpool band the Fernweh combine the Baroque psychedelic sounds of 1960s bands like the Moody Blues and the Left Banke with an autumnally tinged British folk bent and a modern sonic punch. Their sound is handmade and precision-crafted by three musicians who paid their dues as sidemen for years and used every sonic and melodic trick they learned along the way on their self-titled first album, released in 2018. The band leaned more into the modern side of their sonic equation on their second album, adding glam rock, synth pop, and stadium indie to 2022's Torschlusspanik.
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