German musician Rosa Anschütz calls her new album, Interior, "more personal" than the records that preceded it; 2020's Votive and 2022's Goldener Strom.

Having previously maintained an uneasy alliance with Berlin's club scene, on Interior Anschütz instead draws from folk idioms, choral and classical music; creating a series of desolate external landscapes that hint at interior feelings.

"I found a beauty in this older folklore, or arts-and-crafts movements, where things were expressed through nature," the 26-year-old explains. "In romanticism, nature has always been a placeholder for our emotions. It's the only place we all share. The interior we can't share."

In conversation with Anthony Carew on The International Pop Underground, Anschütz talks about growing up in the "still DDR-impregnated" German East, her Catholic school youth, drawing from religious music (but not religion), and making peace with dancefloor remixes of her songs.

Feature image: Eva Luise Hoppe