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BYE BYE MAXWELL

Cosmic Indie Pop · two lead voices · debut EP November 2026

Bern, Switzerland «Footprint» feat. Nat James · out now (18 September 2026)

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Bio

“We are the future, and you are not,” sings a children’s choir in a Bye Bye Maxwell song. Reassurance is not what this band does. The trio from Bern, Switzerland, are Sandy Stadler (vocals, synths, keys), Bänz Isler (vocals, guitar) and Flo Hufschmid (drums). Two lead voices that take turns from song to song, synths, guitar, analogue echo, a singing saw somewhere: they file that under cosmic indie pop. The lyrics are about astrophysics, the future, being lost and the general impermanence of things.

Their first official release, “Überau” with Bernese rapper Nativ (Nativ in Bernese dialect, Sandy answering in English), is the theme song of “The Belonging” (Sky Show / blue Play), the four-part Swiss documentary series about national-team footballers Akanji, Embolo and Rakitić and the question of where you belong; Bänz co-created and co-directed the series, Sandy composed its score.

Sandy and Bänz studied film composition at Zurich University of the Arts and run SONDER Film Music, their scoring studio in Bern. Bye Bye Maxwell is where the pictures come off.

The debut EP «Fragments of Mind» arrives in November 2026, produced by Marty Hailey at Metro 13 Music Studio in Edinburgh. Vintage instruments, modern production, and on the song about sleep paralysis the singing saw. A second single comes in October. A second EP follows, and then the album that joins the two halves and adds a few songs of its own, digital and on vinyl.

Maxwell as in James Clerk Maxwell, the physicist whose demon is a thought experiment about a being that sorts, tirelessly. Bye Bye Maxwell means saying goodbye to whatever sorts music into boxes. Cosmic indie pop is the box they use until it breaks.

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New single

«Footprint» feat. Nat James

It opens like a lost Beach Boys recording and does not stay there. Sandy’s vocals carry the verses over warm organ, punchy drums and tight guitars, the voices stack up, and then Nat James comes in with a rap verse. It’s about one realisation: Forever we’ll have been here. But we were never meant to stay.

First single from the debut EP «Fragments of Mind» (November 2026). Feat. Nat James, rapper from London. Recorded and produced by Marty Hailey at Metro 13 Music Studio, Edinburgh.

Press: “Dreamy pop with a little cosmic disruption.” Last Day Deaf, 19 September 2026

Download cover (3000×3000 px, JPG) · Artwork: Bernarda Conič (Nibera)

First official release

«Überau» with Bernese rapper Nativ

Nativ rapping in Bernese dialect, Sandy answering in English: the theme song of “The Belonging” (Sky Show / blue Play), the four-part Swiss documentary series about national-team footballers Akanji, Embolo and Rakitić. Released in June 2026 on the official series soundtrack.

Debut EP «Fragments of Mind», November 2026

The first chapter of the debut: songs about transience, identity and what remains, produced by Marty Hailey at Metro 13 Music Studio, Edinburgh. A second EP will follow, then the album that joins the two halves and adds a few songs of its own, digital and on vinyl.

Facts

Press release

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Photos

Bye Bye Maxwell, press photo 1
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Free to use for editorial coverage. Please credit the photographer: Phoebe Grigor.

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Full press kit (ZIP, 16 MB)

Contact

Contact

Bänz Isler
hello@byebyemaxwell.com
+41 78 893 28 95

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