Several singles and videos have already been issued from Eraser. So, of course they need to sound very different.” And of course, you can hear it with the animals because they look different, they have different environments. When we made the list we took care that we have all the environments like water and forest and land and air covered.

So, that was important and a starting point. And that was the plan according to the difference of the animals, because like, a bee of course should sound very different to a gorilla or a rhino. Jan Hoffmann: “We just tried basically to have as much diversity as possible, I think it's the most diverse Long Distance Calling album music-wise, because it has the most quiet and calm parts, as well as the most aggressive parts that we ever had.

And the last song is called ‘Eraser’ – and that's not the animal, that's the human. So, we had a list about like 10-15 animals, and then we chose like 7 animals and we wrote a soundtrack for each animal. For example, the starting point was the Greenland shark, because I saw a documentary on TV about the Greenland shark and I think it's possible that the Greenland shark is getting 500 years old – and that's why the song is called ‘500 Years.’ And we talked about it was a good decision to write the soundtrack for each animal.

Janosch Rathmer: “It’s our eighth full-length album, and on this one, we dedicated each song to one endangered animal.

Brave words for someone in distance