NACKT

In the organizer's words:

or outsiders, the pop music topography of north-western Germany usually remains terra incognita until they - quite literally - venture into the field.* And this trip into the countryside is worthwhile, because musical gems can also be found far away from the big cities, in this case behind Bremen.

Take the group NACKT: four musicians who are preparing to conquer the stages of the republic from Oldenburg in Lower Saxony: The country bumpkins have been tinkering with their sound and live set in a damp cellar in the kale capital for some time now. Thanks to their collaboration with the Berlin label Listenrecords, Paula, Fabian, Peter and Tabea are now really daring to break cover.

With a lot of energy and two twinkling eyes, NACKT assemble ironic, razor-sharp German-language pieces: Patriarchy, nationalism, capitalism, racism, philistinism, militarism - no stone is left unturned here. Thematically, the band is treading on very thin ice (ouch!), but social criticism is handiwork. The danceable, detail-loving synthpop garb dresses up the big firewalls and small jibes quite immensely. Politics can also be fun. And admittedly, at some point, everyone is sure to feel caught out when the assembled antagonists are sung about or are even brought up themselves.