Photo credit: Conor J Clarke. With the release of her debut solo album 'Pain Will Polish Me' this Friday, March 27th via Felte, New German Cinema has shared a final pre-release track and accompanying video and confirmed more live dates for the coming months.
New German Cinema is the solo project of Fear of Men songwriter and vocalist Jessica Weiss. She announced her debut solo album with the beat-led single “My Mistake” featuring Merchandise's Carson Cox, followed by the brooding “Swirling Pain”. Today she shares swooping, icy, synth-pop track "Eyes", accompanied by a video shot whilst on tour in Japan last year.
She comments: "It is such a visually rich and very precise culture, that can feel enticing but also slightly unknowable to outsiders. That tension felt very apt for the energy of the song. We filmed fragments as we moved through cities and train stations, neon streets and quiet corners, trying to capture that feeling of being both immersed in a place and slightly outside it, with the recurring motif of landline phones suggesting emotional relationships beyond the frame. The video became a kind of travel diary, but also a visual echo of the song’s inner landscape.”
Watch the video for "Eyes": https://youtu.be/SgHz0dyLd_g
‘Pain Will Polish Me’ album links: https://felte.lnk.to/new-german-cinema
Weiss carries lyrical precision and emotional intensity into the stormy dark-pop gems on her debut solo album. ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ has been five years in the making, stretched between London and LA, built from late-night files, long silences and the quiet persistence of trying to finish something beautiful. Produced with Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus, Cate Le Bon), it feels both forensic and devotional, the product of someone who doesn’t rush catharsis. It presents both solitary and connective, as if built from long-distance transmissions between two dream states. Weiss calls the album a meditation on pop and European art-house auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It tracks the ways intimacy and control fold into one another until it’s impossible to tell where one ends. The songs are about the parts of yourself that dissolve in love, and the small acts of violence that come with being known. They move through claustrophobic relationships, obsession, surrender, cycles of suffering that start to feel like devotion. The language is pop but the feeling is something stranger, colder, more interior.
The songs on ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ move in shadow. Layers of synth, vocal and guitar fold over one another, drawing from the cinematic tension of Fassbinder’s New German Cinema and the quiet dissonance of modern Berlin, where Weiss recorded fragments of the record, drifting between places that carry uneasy ghosts. Between dinner conversations about the city’s buried history and the surreal comfort of its present, she found herself tracing the outlines of love and loss, identity and dissolution. “Germany’s history is everywhere but it’s unsaid,” she notes. “Fassbinder brought it into view. I wanted to approach the same sense of unease through sound.”
It’s an album about losing yourself in order to see what’s left. A document of love as obsession, repetition, survival. A meditation on love as both mirror and undoing, crafted in fragments, then pieced together into something whole.
New German Cinema live dates:
9 Apr - London - window135 Gallery (6–8pm; installation on view 1–15 Apr)
25 Apr - Brighton - Folklore Rooms
30 May - London - Finsbury Park Picturehouse
‘Pain Will Polish Me’ track list:
01. Sub Rosa
02. Swirling Pain - Lyric video
03. Being Dead
04. I Become Heavy
05. Hera's Theme I
06. Eyes - Video
07. Water Drops
08. Hera's Theme II
09. My Mistake - Video
10. All That Heaven Allows
11. Pain Will Polish Me
12. Perfect Secret
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/newgermancinema
https://newgermancinema.bandcamp.com | 
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