His esoteric charm has made him a star back home in Germany and now Maximilian Hecker is hoping to seduce those finger-twiddling Coldplay fans beyond the Black Forest. The melodies, draped in piano, French horn and strings, tick all the right boxes and Hecker's let his breathy whisper fall to a world-weary sigh for a more contemporary sound. His voice caresses the words of Snow White and floats through the whimsy of Silly Lily, Funny Bunny, but for Hecker, love is bound up with a masochistic optimism. "You're so nasty, but so beautiful," he sings in Your Stammering Kisses, his devotion to a cheating lover in Messed-Up Girl is almost unbearable. Under his harmonies, Wilted Flower blooms, the scorn he pours over an ex-love is a rare moment where his halo slips. But the songs are too samey, the mood too sleepy to make Hecker more than a secret pleasure.