German pop/rock artist BROCKHOFF has released her debut album, Easy Peeler.
Released alongside the album’s lead track “Blue Star,” Easy Peeler is a 14-track journey through the trials and anxieties of growing up, self-doubt, and learning to embrace your own sensitivity instead of hiding from it or making excuses for it.
The title of the album is based on clementines, also known as “easy peelers” in many markets, and the clementine’s tendency to refuse to be categorized as either a tangerine or an orange. Much like people, clementines can either be tough to get through to, or open up easily for devouring. Like an easy peeler, BROCKHOFF has decided that she’ll be the latter.
Equal parts grunge riffs, indie-rock, and soft-spoken pop music, Easy Peeler feels in many ways like an ambitious project for a young artist who is still finding their feet – but on this album it feels like BROCKHOFF has found steady footing at last.
Written between 2020 and 2023 and recorded over two weeks in 2025, the album is a love letter to the best of 90s guitar rock and female-fronted pop, eschewing BROCKHOFF’s previous embarrassment and tendency to shy away from the fast-paced nature of the music industry and embrace her own sensitive nature, instead using it as the basis for the heartfelt lyrics on Easy Peeler.
Easy Peeler is simultaneously simple and complex, blending easy pop hooks with intricate melodies, as well as combining heavy sentiments with BROCKHOFF’s gentle, sweet vocals. This isn’t to suggest that BROCKHOFF doesn’t dip into heavier moments, but her vocals remain soft even in the face of them.
Having spent the last few years supporting artists such as Paolo Nutini, Alice Merton, Giant Rooks, and more on tours across Europe, Easy Peeler is proof that BROCKHOFF is ready to take the to the main stage, and make a name on her own.
