Jennifer Touch’s new album ‘Aging at Airports’ was inspired by the time lost between shows hanging about in airports while touring…
“The slowly ticking time at the gate was in complete contrast to what I want to do as an artist: to be in flux, to create things that will last forever…” she said, “I have to accept that I am fading, that my creative power, my face, and my body are fading.”
Born in Dresden and the daughter of DDR flower-power children, the now Berlin-based Jennifer Touch released her first EP in 2014 although didn’t issue her autobiographical debut album ‘Behind The Wall’ until 2020. The Berlin-based artist’s 2023 album ‘Midnight Proposals’ presented a mysterious yet hopeful manifesto to the world although it suffered from being a bit too long.
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Despite its title, ‘Aging at Airports’ does not attempt to be too serious or gloomy, but there is an immediate playfulness in Touch’s honest expressions and gritty production in amongst the gothic drama.
‘Behaviour’ sets the scene with its squelch and drone EBM while feeding off the same plate, ‘Walls of Patience’ also hints towards a Synth Siouxsie template. The deep and hypnotic ‘Dripping’ takes a leaf out of fellow darkwave exponents like DLINA VOLNY and BOY HARSHER in its intensity for the dancefloor where “You gonna live and live with this irony”.
The haunting ‘Anthem’ sees Jennifer Touch play with the higher end of her vocal range outside her usual contralto snarl in the drone dominant backdrop. But in a claustrophobic cocoon of arpeggios and drones, the ‘Ceiling’ of resignation is hit. Sans beats, ‘Wars & Blood Red Roses’ is less immediate but its keys are strident while as the closer to what is actually a mini-album, ‘Rumble’ does just that in its industrial pop overtones with a goth rock edge.
Bristling with realism in its lyrical gists, ‘Aging at Airports’ is an accessible concoction that while more drone dominant than ‘Midnight Proposals’, sees Jennifer Touch not veering too much away from her sound. So those who love her “Post-Wave-Cold-Pop-Acid-Romance” will be very happy with a work that doesn’t outstay its welcome.
‘Aging at Airports’ is released by Fabrika Records, available via https://jennifertouch.bandcamp.com/
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Text by Chi Ming Lai
1st September 2025
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