In the midst of ashtrays, exam papers and love dramas, fume tea heather was founded in 2019 in a loggia in Lüneburg's Weststadt district. Four friends who celebrate the melancholy of the 2010s together in the finest DIY style. Their music combines the energy of punk with the sentimentality of Midwest emo. Twinkles, capos, harmonics. Gang shouts, tambourines, glockenspiel. It tells of friendship and discord, problem solving and being stuck, self-doubt, crushes, embarrassing moments and disappointments, breakfast at noon, withdrawal from reality and passivity, vulnerability and insecurities, the dreariness of growing up and getting lost. In this increasingly isolating world, it is important to admit your own fears and celebrate them, to embrace them and - between tea and fags - to scream: Fuck you, being sad should be for everyone!

“loggia sadlife” tells the story of a time together, the last years of a never-ending teenage fantasy. In 2025, the debut EP, recorded during the pandemic and thought to be almost lost, finally saw the light of day with la pochette surprise records. Even though life initially scattered the four in all directions and singer and guitarist Finn Damerau decided to focus on other things, the band reunited in Leipzig/Halle after a three-year break with a slightly different line-up and started a new chapter.