Weird nights in front of us.
Must be dark, but it is also right.
Silence feels numb, but quiet.
Pretty Average lives inside a paradox. The name is both smirk and shield, a shrug that hides intent, a dare to thrive on understatement. They lean into failure to uncover the truth of what matters. If everyone is cool, who is left uncool? If everything is special, what can be called rare?
They are ordinary oddballs: staying up too late, bickering over drummers, making records between broken glasses and borrowed hours. From this chaos come love songs that refuse the obvious form: distortion folding into voice, past selves staining the present, future ghosts pressing closer. At the center are Sergi and Candy, bound by family, flatmates, and the stubborn joy of making noise together. They carry Dylan’s blunt honesty in one hand and New Order’s electricity in the other. They believe in being a band, not a brand; an ensemble of human mess and communion rather than a commodity streamlined for the algorithm. In a world that atomises individuals, their togetherness feels both fragile and necessary.
When Candy and Sergi left Barcelona for Berlin, they carried both noise and tenderness into a city forever rearranging itself. Candy sings with a smoky, ragged force that cuts through distortion like smoke slipping under a locked door, answered by Sergi’s jagged guitar lines and the taut machinery they drive into collapse. Their songs run long, stretching against the climate of quick cuts and shortcuts, bending the systems that flatten music into content. They call these songs notes on the death of collective hedonism, fragments of extended love, moments suspended and stubborn, inviting the listener to stay rather than scroll.
They begin, with irony, by saying goodbye. Farewell, out now via Ghost Palace Records, carries the shape of an ending, yet here it serves as a launch disguised as a departure. It is catharsis, a ritual of shedding and becoming, of leaving toxic ties behind and stepping into another self. Loneliness sits beside resilience, grief transforms into renewal, and loss becomes a strange comfort. Genres thread throughout the song: shoegaze haze, post-punk edge, indie rock’s bite; with echoes of My Bloody Valentine, New Order, The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Pretty Average has shared some thoughts regarding the release of “Farewell,” a song that launches the band’s new series of singles:
In the era of short cuts to achieve success in ones artistic career we present this compilation of long songs that disturb the methods of how music is commercialised today.
A note on dying collective hedonism. We invite you to deepen down to our catchy yet dark very extended love songs which each reflect a particular hanging moment in our lives and invite you levitate in it.
We ironically begin this run of singles with “Farewell”. This song is about everyone one had to say goodbye once in life. It isn’t negative at all, the song explores the cathartic moment of becoming stronger by loosing toxic relationships along the way to turn into a different being.
“crying all alone, but happy.
dreaming all alone, your farewell.”
The video for Farewell, directed by Dorje de Burgh, heightens this strange duality. A Y2K DV-style performance bleeds into warped TV fragments and found footage of police, the whole thing moving like a fever dream caught between memory and media. It feels raw and unresolved, like an interrupted nightmare you’re piecing together in a daze.
Watch the video for “Farewell” below:
Pretty Average have been a fixture on Berlin stages, honing their live chemistry in countless clubs. In late 2024 they toured across Europe, then returned to Spain to reconnect with their homeland, forging ties with booking agencies such as Lume! Bookings. They are preparing to return to underground venues across Europe this spring, shaping their sound in front of sweat-soaked crowds and late-night audiences. Francisco Parisi of Minimal Schlager produced their debut release All I Wanted in 2024, pressed into two vinyl runs that both sold out quickly. Now, with Ghost Palace Records, Pretty Average have finished their debut LP, a full-length set to push their contradictions further outward.
Pretty Average turn everyday failures into distorted hymns of survival, writing songs that sound like people rather than products, farewells that double as invitations to hold together in a life that feels precarious, fragile….and, because of that, worth sharing.
The band is currently on their Single Release tour across Europe. Catch them on the following dates:
- 09/18 — Prague, CZ — Beats From Basement
- 09/19 — Vienna, AU — Secret Venue
- 10/09 — Beaumont, BE — Les Cordes
- 10/10 — Nijmegen, NL — Waalhalla
- 10/25 — Hamburg, DE — Gallery 21
- 11/14 — Barcelona, ES — Heart Your Mouth
- 11/15 — Valencia, ES — Ca Revolta
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