Grossstadtgeflüster

The Berlin band, which has been spanning the arc of good taste from both sides since 2003 and has made many, many, many people happy with its 1000 or so concerts, is not back, but still here. Jen Bender (vox), Raphael Schalz (keys) and Chriz Falk (drums) are only reliable in their unpredictability as to what the next song will sound like. With evergreens such as ‘Fickt-Euch-Allee’ or ‘Feierabend’, they are constantly banging out hits that seem subcultural, but then ensure a good mood across generations and genres. There's always a bit of rave in there, a bit of pop, a bit of punk, a bit of hip-hop, garnished with stylistic ricochets and U-turns, a lot of synths and a latent tendency towards eccentricity. The common thread is formed by the lyrics, which were awarded the GEMA Music Authors' Prize in 2022 and traditionally form a web of wordplay, irony, double rhymes, meta-levels and punchlines between philosophical depth and hype album calendar pages. The seventh Grossstadtgeflüster longplayer ‘Das Über-Icke’ was last released in 2024.