Just a year after the release of their second album Sketches of the Moon, which saw them establish an increasingly strong presence on international stages, ATOMIC FRUIT return on October 10th with the new single Hit The Ground via Rola Music, the first track from the Berlin trio’s upcoming third record.
Accompanied by an official music video made by frontman Martin Lundfall himself, the song is a hypnotic journey that unfolds over bluesy cadences, guided by psychedelic vocals floating among the layers of an immersive, stratified soundscape. After the opening’s predominantly acoustic tones, synthetic shades with a krautrock flavor emerge, along with enveloping shoegaze-inspired guitar textures. As the listening progresses, the song form is challenged and deconstructed, allowing it to dissolve in favor of sudden turns and dark tunnels at the end of which a dim light can be glimpsed. The atmosphere is desert-like and rarefied, evoking both the poetics of David Lynch and the sound of SUUNS. The atmosphere is desert-like and rarefied, evoking both the poetics of David Lynch and the sound of SUUNS. It is no coincidence that the band – whose members come from Sweden, France, and Italy – first met in 2021 at one of the latter’s concerts, almost as if by fate.
The single is released together with a video that, through collages of imaginary landscapes, plays with the optical illusion of the parallax effect, where shifting and transforming scenery mirrors the suspended, visionary dimension of the track: «“Hit The Ground” is about the clutter that builds up in your head when living in the city. An endless noise of desires, deadlines and ambitions running through your mind like traffic. You dream of a simpler life. Out in nature, daydreaming, studying the trajectories of bumblebees and migratory birds».
Their music, rooted in both the great masters of the 1970s and the more contemporary waves of experimentation, draws listeners into an enigmatic vortex of sound, confirming that Martin Lundfall, Raphaël Giraldi, and Federico Lenzi have everything it takes to once again enchant the underground scene with their psychedelic magic.
While waiting for the new album, the band has already announced an international tour that will kick off this fall. They will be joined by Munich-based rock band Digital Carbs, with whom they released the collaborative track Up and Away in June 2025. The tour will stop in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Italy. Further updates will be shared on social media and throughout the promotion.
16.10 – Prague · Kampus Hybernská
17.10 – Wien · Kramladen
18.10 – Graz · Music-House
30.10 – Berlin · Badehaus
31.10 – Hamburg · Stellwerk
01.11 – Copenhagen · Råhuset
13.11 – Munich · Lost Weekend
14.11 – Heilbronn · Mobilat
28.11 – Marburg · Trauma
29.11 – Cologne · Subway
11.12. – San Piero in Bagno · Orso Bianco
12.12 – Turin · Imbarchino
13.12 – S. Margherita L. · Arci Orchidea