With their second album Immense Birthday Party a=f/m return with renewed energy and an expanded lineup: alongside founding members Belia Winnewisser and Rolf Laureijs, Melanie Zwahlen (previously making waves with ALL XS) joins the cast – forming a trio whose chemistry feels as intuitive as it is inevitable.
Across the album, the band navigates the full register of feeling: the bouncy insistence of A New Song, the tenderness of World of Mine, the immediacy of A Star. Each track is distinct yet falls seamlessly into place once experienced in sequence. The record reveals a group that knows how to build tension, release it, and let emotions linger. It’s pop in the truest sense – generous, direct, and confident enough to embrace its own appeal.
Immense Birthday Party articulates what holds us together and what pulls us apart, mirroring the emotional highs and lows of everyday life with subtle shifts, quiet turns, and sudden epiphanies. It’s music that wears its pop sensibility without disguise, allowing it to expand wherever it needs to go: the members, whose contrasts never compete but accentuate each other, create a dialogue that is both vulnerable and self-assuring.
In the end, Immense Birthday Party is a statement of presence. a=f/m know pop and its nuances, its codes, and its capacity to move. Immense Birthday Party reminds us that music doesn’t need to be dissected to mean something. Sometimes, it just needs to hit.
