Rock
Eckhart, last year’s winners of the Demotape Clinic in the Rock category, navigate somewhere between rage, rave, and existential melancholy. This trio from Vevey delivers an uncompromising sound – with lyrics dancing between self-realization, the search for meaning, and the alienation of entertainment, musically spanning a spectrum from trip-hop and industrial to post-rock, breakcore, and techno. Their sonic universe recalls the radicalism of Death Grips, the energy of the Chemical Brothers, and the darkness of Daughters or Psychic TV.