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fiio is a Viennese songwriter and guitarist who moves somewhere between the indie sound of the 90s, the 00s and the present day — many-sided, never pinned down. His songs paint a picture of life in your mid-to-late twenties in the world's "allegedly" unfriendliest city: full of everyday romance, daydreaming and half-serious drama.

On his album "Athena", fiio circles around digital or analogue selfhood, big-city life and the absurd balancing act between self-reflection and deliberately looking the other way for one's own good. Sometimes a performer, sometimes an observer, occasionally a caricaturist — always in the spirit of that effortless ease Vienna so likes to claim it doesn't have.