Triangle Tattoo, Unforgivable

Somewhere out there is a person with a triangle tattooed on their body because their partner in 2009 said it would look cool forever. Deichkind—Germany’s long-running electro-hip-hop collective, Kryptic Joe and Ferris MC leading the charge—just dropped So ’ne Musik, and the video is full of triangles, so that person is either vindicated or furious, and I genuinely can’t tell which.

I cannot forgive them for "Leider geil." Roughly "unfortunately awesome," it became the anthem of every overexcited mechanic apprentice on every Friday-night subway in Germany, screamed at ceiling-height volume until roughly 2013. But there was a time before that—"Ich betäube mich," "Bon Voyage," "Komm schon!"—when Deichkind felt like something with actual edges, before they put blinking traffic cones on their heads and turned themselves into a spectacle. I have time for that version still.

So ’ne Musik is a solid enough preview of the forthcoming album Niveau Weshalb Warum. The tracklist—"Der Flohmarkt Ruft," "Porzellan Und Elefanten," "Oma Gib Handtasche"—reads exactly like what you’d expect from five middle-aged men who have fully committed to their own absurdist mythology. Which is, at minimum, honest.