Apparat – Glimmerine
We’ve been following Apparat’s return closely here at Stereobar — first with “An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)” back in W48 2025, then with the title track “Hum Of Maybe” in W03 2026. Now A Hum Of Maybe lands today via Mute, and “Glimmerine” — the album opener — is the track that sets everything in motion.
It starts bare: just Ring’s voice and a low, gentle background texture. Then a disruption — dark buzz, prancing rhythm, wide synth surfaces, ragged trombone — and the whole thing shifts. “Glimmerine” doesn’t settle into one mode. Fragile ambient gives way to experimental pop gives way to glitchy techno, all within a single track. One reviewer called it “a journey through a complete album”, and that’s not an overstatement. It’s a statement of intent from an artist who spent two years unable to compose, then broke through by writing one idea a day for six months — no editing, no pressure. The opener carries that energy: built from a fragment, but fully realized.
The live version above captures the track with Ring’s full band — Philipp Johann Thimm on cello, piano and guitar, Christoph “Mäckie” Hamann on violin and bass, Jörg Wähner on drums, Christian Kohlhaas on trombone. That ensemble warmth is central to what makes A Hum Of Maybe work. More on the full record in the February Stereobar Spotlight.
Tracklist:
- Glimmerine
- A Slow Collision
- Gravity Test
- Tilth
- Hum Of Maybe
- An Echo Skips A Name
- Enough For Me
- Lunes
- Williamsburg
- Pieces, Falling
- Recallibration
Tour Dates Europe:
- April 15 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
- April 16 – Rome, Italy – Auditorium Parco della Musica
- June 21 – Duisburg, Germany – Traumzeit Festival
- August 7 – Feldkirch, Austria – Poolbar Festival
