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An Alarm Rising from Berlin
Berlin-based fuzz-punk pop trio Trash Pillow confronts one of the most unsettling questions of our time head-on with their new single “Eyes On Us (It’s the Sound of a Drone)”: Who is watching, who is being watched, and how does that gaze shape our lives?
The track was written in the shadow of protests. In that tense void between bodies moving through the streets and machines hovering above the sky. Trash Pillow fills this space with music — distortion, taut rhythms, and an uneasy narrative.
This song is the opening gate to the band’s upcoming EP, RAW. And that gate swings open hard.
Who Are Trash Pillow?
Trash Pillow is a project emerging from Berlin’s underground scene, turning music into a form of catharsis. Raw guitars, snarling bass lines, and politically charged lyrics — but beneath it all, there’s a constant human fragility.
- For the band, noise is not decoration.
- It’s a reflex.
- A form of defense.
In their songs, protest aesthetics intertwine with everyday paranoia. Humor stands side by side with disturbing realism. This balance makes Trash Pillow not only heavy, but also a careful storyteller.
The Heart of the Song – The Sound from Above
Eyes On Us (It’s the Sound of a Drone) addresses the dual nature of modern surveillance: monitoring devices circling above protests, and weapons carrying death over war zones.
The song doesn’t use the feeling of being watched as a horror cliché. Instead, it shows how this sensation seeps into daily life — while walking, shouting, staying silent.
Trash Pillow offers no dramatic resolutions here. The song amplifies tension rather than providing answers. It keeps vibrating that thin line between control and resistance.
Visual Language – The Memory of the Red Cone
The video accompanying the track revolves around a single figure: a red cone. It shouts, listens, watches.
This figure reflects authority embedded in public space — an invisible yet constantly felt pressure. Neither entirely real nor purely symbolic. Just like surveillance itself.
Trash Pillow’s visual world doesn’t explain the emotion the song conveys; it multiplies it.
RAW EP – Different Faces of War
Eyes On Us is the first chapter of the four-track EP RAW. The EP doesn’t tell war from a single front; instead, it shows how it infiltrates different layers of life.
Bombs Make Her LOL
A true story of a father turning fear into play to protect his daughter in the face of exploding bombs. The ruthless creativity of survival
Eyes On Us (It’s the Sound of a Drone)
The distance between power descending from above and bodies left below.
Fellow Traveller
A ghostly narrative focusing on children crushed beneath adult ideologies in the final days of Nazi Germany.
She’s From A War
The invisible burdens carried by those fleeing war; a world where borders fail to promise safety.
RAW does not dramatize war. It treats it as an everyday, unavoidable, and deeply personal reality.
A First Listening Note
Trash Pillow doesn’t harden itself just to be “hard” on this track. The noise feels like a natural consequence of the narrative.
When the song ends, what remains is not a slogan, but an unsettling awareness. Eyes On Us (It’s the Sound of a Drone) doesn’t force the listener to choose sides — but it also doesn’t let you keep your gaze lowered.
