THE NEW MOURNING

The New Mourning have been in their current shape since early 2019: Thomas Pronai (vocals, Bass VI), Georg Allacher (vocals, guitar, synths), Michi Rieder (guitar), Gerald Allacher (drums).

On paper it’s an indie rock band. On stage there’s no bass player. Pronai grinds out fat low chords on a Squier Bass VI, or plays the hooks on it outright, while two guitars flicker around him. People in the audience have been known to stand there trying to work out what they’re looking at.

The songs don’t have much to them, on purpose. One riff, one or two chords, and everything else built the way you’d build a techno track — layers going on, layers coming off. Live they tend to run long. Every song points somewhere different and still sounds unmistakably like this band. Someone at a show once put it this way: like Jeff Tweedy covering The Velvet Underground, only better.

There was a debut single first — “Who’d Stop The Sun” (Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten, 2019), cut by Pronai alone in London — then two albums on Noise Appeal Records: When The Light Fades (2022) and Songs Of Confusion (2025). A few hundred kilometres of touring since then have done the rest.

Pronai produces the records himself. He’s a recording engineer with a mostly analogue studio out on the edge of the Pannonian Steppe in eastern Austria, where he’s tracked Der Nino aus Wien, Ernst Molden and Ja, Panik, among others. His reputation is for a no-bullshit sound: earthy, and only the parts that matter.

Album number three arrives in 2027.

Status:
active

Members:
Thomas Pronai
Gerald Allacher
Georg Allacher
Michi Rieder

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