Falling Star

A falling star would actually be a shooting star or a meteor, but Maximilian Hecker seems to take the title of his catchy Travis-esque folk-pop ballad literally when he sings about "leading a life like a rising star", unsure of how to love, or how to deal with his "orphaned" or even "stillborn" feelings of love, spending his time with his "fair-weather friends" rather than with his soul mates, and therefore ultimately finding himself falling, or rather: after the fall, with his "head down on the ground". Similar to "Two-toned Love (part I)", the first single of Hecker’s soon to be released tenth studio album "Neverheart", the lyrics of FALLING STAR are equally characterized by the stylistic means of the oxymoron whereby the enigmatic musician tries to display his emotional ambivalence in matters of the Neverheart. Maximilian Hecker was supported in the sound implementation of his downfall by his congenial partners Johannes Feige (production) and Peter "Jem" Seifert (mix) – the former already the producer of Hecker’s albums "Spellbound Scenes of My Cure" (2015) and "Wretched Love Songs" (2018), the latter collaborator and producer of renowned German acts like Udo Lindenberg, Andreas Bourani and Ich + Ich – who gave FALLING STAR its oppressive breadth and defined elusiveness, and countered the wretchedness of the song's lyrical content with a sound that could rightly be called "larger-than-low-life".