Odd Beholder — Focus Disease

Odd Beholder, the electro wave / indie pop project of Swiss musician Daniela Weinmann, announces her fourth album “Honest Work” and releases the single “Focus Disease” on April 10th, 2026.

"Please, Doctor, I want to be able to work in peace instead of having to think," pleads the protagonist in the song "Focus Disease"; she wants an ADHD diagnosis, wants to stop dreaming, to function, to obey. Constantly monitored and forcedly entertained, someone here is trying to buy back their attention with the help of medication, would rather be declared mad than keep scrolling – where is the handle, the button, the way off this merry-go-round of the attention economy? And how does that trick work that makes it bearable to endure the multiple crises of present time, and the cynicism of the status quo? Perhaps an answer can be found at the pharmacy.

Odd Beholder shows herself in the song at times harmonically ambivalent and haunted like Cat Power and then suddenly like Shania Twain having a nightmare, or as if she finally entered a belated Radiohead-Phase. The guitars drive the song, panicky and strangely euphoric as if her musical energy fights against being merely classified on the DSM-scale but instead testifies of the vitality and the lust of life of the artist.