AKRYL

Not afraid of the uncomfortable truths of our time and yet full of courage to dream towards a better world: AKRYL puts her salty finger in the wounds of Gen Z only to rush straight in with marigold ointment and bandages. The singer–songwriter from St. Gallen in Switzerland creates poetic songs with lyrics full of bittersweet beauty and draws musical inspiration from the ethereal dream pop of Phoebe Bridgers as well as from the lyrical and compositional genius of Feist and the leftfield experimentation of Orla Gartland and Bon Iver. An equally inspired and stylistically confident rainbow spans three decades of music history across the indie sky and reveals an artist who can handle synthesisers and layered chorales as well as guitars and timeless lo-fi Americana. Her debut single, ‘Blumen aus Metall’ (2025), brings together nuances of all her influences and foreshadows great things for the not-too-distant future. And certainly also for her Reeperbahn Festival premiere in September.