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Bye Bye Maxwell

BYE BYE MAXWELL

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

Bern, Switzerland «Überau» — with Nativ · out now

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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). They file the sound under cosmic indie pop: two lead voices taking turns from song to song, and lyrics about astrophysics, the future, being lost and the general impermanence of things.

Their first single “Überau” with Bernese rapper Nativ (Nativ rapping 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. Two of the band’s three members made the series itself: Bänz co-created and co-directed it, Sandy (credited as Sandra Stadler) composed its score.

The division of labour is well-rehearsed. Sandy and Bänz studied film composition at Zurich University of the Arts and run SONDER Film Music, their scoring studio in Bern; their scores have taken Best Soundtrack at the Munich Film Awards and Best Score at the Paris Art & Movie Awards. Bye Bye Maxwell is where the pictures come off.

The debut EP arrives in autumn 2026, produced by Marty Hailey at Metro 13 Music Studio in Edinburgh: vintage instruments, modern production, and a singing saw on the song about sleep paralysis. 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 the thought experiment of a being that sorts, tirelessly. Bye Bye Maxwell means saying goodbye to whatever sorts music into boxes.

Releases

Debut single

«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 and the question of where you belong. Two of the band’s three members made the series itself: Bänz co-created and co-directed it, Sandy composed its score. The series climbed to #2 on Sky Show; in July 2026 the song was released on the official series soundtrack.

Debut EP — autumn 2026

The first chapter of the debut — songs about transience, identity and what remains, produced by Marty Hailey at Metro 13 Music Studio, Edinburgh: vintage instruments, modern production, and on the song about sleep paralysis a singing saw. 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

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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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Contact

Contact

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

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