For some time now Aleksandra’s main area of interest has been music. In February 2014, We Will Fail released its debut album. The title Verstörung may very well be inspired by Thomas Bernhard’s novel released in 1967, released under the title Gargoyles. It can also be associated with the theme of the Unsound Festival in 2013 ('Interference'), at which We Will Fail performed a year later. The artist explained in the media:
We Will Fail is a project focused on the pleasure of wandering, being lost. Field research, sample tapes, noise, synthesizers, and electronic percussion are intertwined into an eerie whole that shows attributes of techno aesthetics.
In September, half a year after the debut album came out, the vinyl Verstörung 2.0 was released. Every attempt to name it is a judgement at the same time: an alternative, a continuation, a concentration, an expansion? The artists herself says:
A continuation, a second approach to the same material, taking it on from another side.
The album consists of 9 tracks, some of which come from the debut album; however, they have been altered and adjusted due to the multiple live performances. There are also a few premiere tracks that were produced after the release of the first album.
The author of the article in magazine Kilof believes that:
(…) despite the two interpretations of Verstörung, it is a whole that is disrupted by new mechanisms and rhythms.
PrefixMag.com on the other hand wrote:
The techno that Grunholz fashions is dance music in a confused, disrupted state, equivalent to a high that goes terribly wrong: the ambient drones in the album’s background cloud the view with impenetrable darkness, and the random samples of bangs and clicks will make you flinch with desperation.
Both albums have been reviewed by international music portals such as Tiny Mix Tapes and The Quietus. In the PrefixMag.com year review, We Will Fail was at second place in Poland. Meanwhile in the Beehy.pl classification of Polish albums, Verstörung received first place. That’s quite an achievement, as the website functions as a form of recommendation/suggestion of Polish songs and albums to foreigners (and foreign songs and albums to Poles).
The unpublished track by We Will Fail can be found on the album Stefek added to the third edition of M/I magazine (spring 2015). This compilation is the soundtrack to a… comic book.