Man&Error 2025 cassette
Three friends from Berlin (Lianne, Arndt, and Clara) started a “summer band” last year, wrote and recorded a handful of songs over the course of three weeks, then committed them to tape for permanence. The music that I most often connect with is clearly the product of people in community with one another deciding that being in a band is the natural and obvious extension of the connections that they share—without knowing anyone in MAN&ERROR personally, I can just imagine the project first taking shape after, say, meeting two other people who also had their entire creative worldview turned upside down the first time that they heard the RAINCOATS, or being given a mixtape that included the same KICKING GIANT and SLANT 6 songs that the recipient had obsessed over in private for half a lifetime (2025’s “Away with Faeries” is total Billotte-core, and I’m here for it). Spartan post-punk with an off-kilter melodic heart, singularly focused but shambling in spirit, very much recalling early 2010s bands like GRASS WIDOW and HOUSEHOLD and TRASH KIT who were sowing similar seeds from late ’70s/early ’80s femme-centered Rough Trade and the early ’90s International Pop Underground. And a PETTICOATS cover to boot? Summer needs to last forever.