There’s a moment in Lukka’s new single StarDazer where the groove locks in and everything else — time, thought, whatever you had going on — just dissolves. That’s kind of the whole point. The New York/Berlin motorik psych-rock trio has dropped their third single from the new album ‘Wendekind’, and it comes loaded with an experimental video that’s every bit as transportive as the track itself.
Frontwoman Franzi Szymkowiak describes StarDazer as “an exploration of space and time, drawing information from the quantum field through meditation, and drifting through vibrations and dreams.” Which sounds exactly like what it feels like to listen to it.
A Video That Lives Inside Your Head
Director Simone Billarelli approached the visuals not as a narrative, but as a state of consciousness. In his words, “The protagonist is Lukka herself, who becomes Star Dazer: a permeable figure where time, emotions and perception coexist beyond linearity.” The camera doesn’t observe — it drifts. Fragments of lyrics surface and dissolve. The body appears in layers, seen from multiple angles at once, not broken but perceived through time.
It builds toward what Billarelli calls “a perceptual overload, where everything exists at the same time,” before gradually slowing into something that settles without quite resolving. Haunting in the best possible way.
About ‘Wendekind’
The new album is Lukka’s third, recorded at Transmitter Park Studios in Brooklyn and produced by Abe Seiferth (Nation of Language, Neon Indian, Guerilla Toss). It expands on the foundation laid by their 2022 LP ‘Something Human,’ pushing deeper into immersive, synth-driven territory — hypnotic grooves, delayed guitars, propulsive rhythms, layered analog synths. The core trio of Szymkowiak, bassist Ashley Gonzalez, and drummer Simon “SiFi” Fishburn is locked in tight.
The title carries real personal weight. Franzi was born around the fall of the Berlin Wall — children born in East Germany at that time were called Wendekinder, a generation born into a new, free world. “My mum always called me a ‘Wendekind,’” she explains. “It felt like the perfect title for the album.” Across its ten tracks, ‘Wendekind’ moves between memory and cosmos, loss and self-discovery, personal history and the metaphysical — it’s a deeply reflective record from an artist fully in her element.
Track List
- Blue Ocean Eyes
- TomboI
- Silent Age
- Fabric Of The Cosmos
- Martian Meeting
- Ost-Berlin
- StarDazer
- Field Theory
- Planetarium
- The One
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