Glimmer and Fold Send “Flying Objects” Into the Ether

Glimmer and Fold arrive as the second selection in this new weekly series that highlights four artists chosen directly from submissions to ROMBO’s Instagram open call. The German duo – married couple Maria and Nick Pattusch – present “Flying Objects,” a track that has lived with them for nearly their entire shared musical history.

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Written around fifteen years ago, right after the birth of their first child, “Flying Objects” emerged during a gentle return to making music. Life had shifted completely. Instruments felt both familiar and distant. The song captured that precise moment of disorientation and quiet creative burst. It was never rushed into release. It waited.

The couple, formerly known as The Taste, had already built a reputation in the mid-2000s with sharp, cerebral guitar pop and live energy that drew comparisons to a flipped-role White Stripes. Early coverage in Rolling Stone Germany and Artrocker noted their instinct, intensity, and melodic fracture. After a long family break, Glimmer and Fold now step back with the same hand-crafted touch, rooted in the southern German countryside.

The title and lyrics draw from Maria Pattusch’s long-standing interest in unexplained phenomena – an interest that predated the current mainstream wave of UFO discussion. References to Graham Hancock and alternative ideas surface in the song’s world. The verses move through green distractions, black contractions, blue skies turning to waves of starlight, deep seas glowing with neon fish light. The refrain repeats a simple, disarming image: “So you start flying / High / Below, beneath, above.”

The language is precise and surreal. It evokes the strange, beautiful haze of those early parenthood years – a time when ordinary life felt newly weightless and otherworldly at once.

Maria handles vocals, guitar and bass. Nick plays drums and percussion. The production, recorded and mixed by Nick at Oakpark Riverside Studios, carries a warm ’70s spirit while staying rooted in indie-rock directness. Subdued guitar jangles open the track, giving way to dreamy, ethereal vocals and an escalating chorus that builds toward fuzzy, harder-rocking guitars in the final stretch. The arrangement feels spacious yet controlled – never showy, always purposeful.