Dicht & Ergreifend – 'Zweiländerdreieck' review: Bavaria in dialect and High German
The Lower Bavarian rap duo deliver a concept album – half dialect, half standard German. laut.de mainly praises the Bavarian songs but does not consider it their best album.
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Single: Mischimi
Rap duo Dicht & Ergreifend – Lef Dutti (Fabian Frischmann) and George Urkwell (Michael Huber) – release 'Zweiländerdreieck' on 16 October via Zipfe Adam Records. The concept album comes in three parts: a standard German section, a transition and a Bavarian section. The pair broke through in 2014 with 'Zipfeschwinga'. Among the advance singles is 'Mischimi' – in its music video a spaceship delivers a pizza to the band.
laut.de critic Christian Schmitz-Linnartz finds the dialect tracks more natural than the standard German ones: the dialect simply suits rap. He praises the powerful opener 'Identität' with its horn sample, the absurdly funny 'Helga', 'Lies' featuring Taiga Trece and Fraenko, and 'America' about the dominance of US culture. He names 'Beamtenbeleidigung' with comedian Eva Karl Faltermeier as the highlight.
He criticises 'Egal' and 'Nichts Wird So Bleiben Wie Es Sein Wird', which come across as interchangeable and ingratiating in standard German, and a half-sentence about Gaza in 'Ich Bin Dafür' that does not do justice to such a serious subject. His verdict: a fair portrait of Bavaria, strengths and weaknesses included – but not the duo's best album. Dicht & Ergreifend play Regensburg on 24 October and Munich's Kesselhaus on 27 and 28 November.