Swiss songwriter Thomas Schmidiger, recording as Tender Ender, has released 'Choice', the third single from his forthcoming second album Red Kites, due 13 November. The track arrives with a visualizer and follows the earlier singles 'Darkness' and 'Woke Up with a Knife', both of which made prominent use of home organ and its built-in rhythm machine.

'Choice' takes a different approach: Schmidiger delivers much of the vocal in a spoken-word style over sparse piano, the arrangement gradually building toward a hymn-like intensity while the lyrics question the familiar claim that there is no alternative. The nine-track album was written and recorded between 2022 and 2024 in Gysenstein, Switzerland, with instrumentation kept deliberately simple — piano, home organ, harmonium, vibraphone and pedal steel, plus additional vocals from Sabine Ruch. Mixing was handled by Manuel Egger, mastering by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone. Vinyl pre-orders are open via the artist's web shop.