Ich Trag Den Sarg, Du Trägst Was Buntes

For Jupiter Jones, the past two years leading up to 2026 have seen the right sort of blood, sweat and tears – heart and soul, and all that. The band have been working on their new album, which – without false modesty – they’re already keen to call their best yet. One thing is certain, however: it is the most important Jupiter Jones album in the band’s history to date.

Following their pandemic-fragmented predecessor *Die Sonne Ist Ein Zwergstern*, which emerged from long, partly digital sessions and careful readjustments, things were allowed to run very differently this time round. Jupiter Jones retreated to Sascha Eigner’s studio in Hamburg with their long-standing collaborator Andreas Weizel and simply wrote. Intuitively, directly, together. The intuition of earlier years met the band’s current ‘more polished’ approach. The band likes to turn things up to eleven, but doesn’t shy away from pop. Songs that speak their mind, love songs, songs that look both forwards and backwards. This time, the direction is very deliberately forwards. The music was recorded as a band, with the people who make up Jupiter Jones. The result feels correspondingly authentic. Despite – and because of – the world as it is, there was plenty of laughter along the way. At the same time, at key moments, ‘Ich Trag Den Sarg, Du Trägst Was Buntes’ can be understood as the band’s clearest political statement to date.