It's the sentiment you experience when you miss somebody you really like and just can't spend time with that person. The feeling in the song refers to a certain moment I wanted to hold on to. With its bright handclaps, plaintive acoustic guitars, and his own gravelly smooth delivery, the song became a viral sensation, eventually racking up over 30 million-plus YouTube views and made them the 'most blogged about act' on Hype Machine for that month.ДЄbout the song, he says, 'It's less of a story than a feeling. After cutting the tracks, Clemens and Philipp uploaded the first single 'Stolen Dance' to YouTube. However, it went a lot further than that. We never thought it would go further than that.' We did what we wanted to and what felt good at the moment. We never bought expensive studio equipment or even hired a producer. 'We only played two shows before we decided to make the album. 'There was never a plan,' Clemens goes on. They didn't need anything more than a rudimentary interface, microphone, and computer.

Over the course of two weeks in 2013, they cut their full-length debut, Sadnecessary, on a minimalist setup, spending hours getting the settings just right. In order to capture that, the boys built a tiny studio in the quiet house Clemens grew up in. I write the best songs when this mood catches me.' You can dance to most of it too! Melancholy is something that I carry within me. Somehow, it's always a little bit melancholy, but there's a positive spin. Weaving together elegant electronic production with acoustic guitars and lilting, lush vocals, they harnessed a style unequivocally their own.Д¬lemens put it best, 'Think of it as the singer-songwriter spirit mixed with electronic beats. Even though the group disbanded when their drummer left Kassel, Clemens and Philipp kept on making music. They got along so great that they played in a local band until graduation. It didn't take long at all for us to notice that we got along great.'

'On that first day, you're looking around the classroom trying to see who's cool and who's not,' laughs Clemens. The Kassel, Germany duo met in an 'Advanced Music Course' at the start of eleventh grade, and they creatively gelled right off the bat. That was the case for Clemens and Philipp - otherwise known as Milky Chance. Sometimes, you can end up being introduced to one of the best friends you'll ever know.

You never know who you're going to meet on the first day of school.

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