Founded by Philipp Martin (guitar), and currently featuring Stimme Jan Frisch (guitar). Jorinde Minna Markert (vocals, lyrics) and Volker Heuken (vibraphone), Leipzig-based post-punk/art punk/No Wave outfit Hypochondrische Ängste was created by Martin as a way of writing and performing a radical rethinking of musical structures through knotty, off-kilter and discordant grooves and style collages paired with free associative, seemingly stream of consciousness-like lyrics.
The Leipzig-based outfit’s full-length debut is slated for a Spring 2025 release. But in the meantime, they shared the recently released, standalone single “Real Authentic Berlin Street Love,” is anchored around an expansive and uneasy arrangement featuring an angular and stuttering groove, propulsive and forceful drumming and a xylophone-driven coda paired with speak-singing lyrics. Seemingly nodding at the likes of Gang of Four, Ganser, FACS, Pop Music Fever Dream and a lengthy list of others, “Real Authentic Berlin Street Love,” evokes a creeping, feverish anxiety that defines our fearful, bitterly divisive hellscape of a moment.
Lyrically, “Real Authentic Berlin Street Love” is a love story told as a consumer story: Berlin is a brand and the love language commodification and exploitation.
The accompanying video is a surrealistic and stylish fever dream.
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