MONTA
PACIFIC

It's a bit of a shame that Monta's album is only coming out now. Because it would have been such a perfect companion through the summer. For the good and the rainy days, the wakeful nights and the earplug bike rides into the backlight. These songs develop their effect in the (metaphorically or literally) drunken moments with others, with whom you like to sing along to the choruses from the Bluetooth box as loudly as possible.

But just as well in those times when you get a little heartache from all the sunlight and the hustle and bustle of going out. Because you suddenly have to think about people who are far away or no longer there. And you suddenly look at the Super 8 movie that's playing in your head, and you actually find that beautiful too.

Monta, that is and always has been Tobias Kuhn. "Pacific" is his first new album since 2007, and although that really is a long time, you still remember it very well.

Tobias Kuhn has always been a singer, songwriter and musician who could bring together the intimate and the hymnal, the psychedelic afterglow and the great, all-embracing melody. Not alternately, but both in one.

And the best news: on the nine songs of "Pacific", he succeeds in this fine art even more brilliantly, more complexly and more vividly than ever before. And even better: There will be another summer soon. Until then, we'll be able to play the songs by heart.