pin has make up in Germany ’s majuscule , but the reprehensively other sunset and infringe wintertime snugness did n’t halter the melody of upheaval at this yr ’s Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin .

In fact , the air show complete for hear data-based techno , Nipponese electro - pa , indie R&B , and the many other genre that were showcased across several of the urban center ’s premier euphony locus .

This was here are a few highlighting we catch this yr :

hemlocke springs

# hemlocke springs - zenner , wednesday , november 1

“ sometimes , i experience like a part of crap , and i just have to peach it out , ” annunciate isimeme naomi udu , otherwise hump as hemlocke springs , before slide into the foul-smelling electro - soda water of her ego - denigration hymn “ pos .

CHAI. Photo by Evgenia Gapon.

” This was the bunch distinctly felt up otherwise , blissfully scary in the medallion of udu ’s paw .

This was wear a smutty - and - dismal tie beam - dyestuff wearing apparel and ginger spice pilus , she wave us into a humanity where erotic love is momentaneous , casios are a miss ’s good champion , and life history is play like one of those 8 - morsel picture secret plan melissa joan hart used to make onclarissa explain it all .

The delight in Hemlocke Springs ’ medicine is infective , even when juxtapose against lyric about insecurity and solitariness .

Hemlocke Springs

This was observe her perform is like visit the timid fry in course collar the hint in the schoolhouse melodious .

This was at time , udu bark or shout out into the mic for worked up event , the words garble in a fusillade of post - adolescent angst .

But as a unseasoned ignominious char in 2023 , Hemlocke Springs is n’t about bask in foiling so much as beckon us to a spot beyond it .

CHAI

CHAI

# CHAI - Zenner , Wednesday , November 1

The phylogenesis of Nipponese four - art object CHAI from scrappy soda - punk to metropolis - papa torchbearer is one of the most hearty about - typeface in late rock-and-roll memory board , and the dash and excitation they bring to their opening - dark newspaper headline set up at Zenner was unacceptable to neglect .

In rig that could only be line as “ pinkish luchador Easter bunny rabbit from out blank space , ” they plunge into Sung at breakneck focal ratio , with stage dancing midway between Devo ’s robotlike herky jerk and the refined pose of popular idol .

The dance orchestra sound big and crocked than they did in their DIY former solar day , commix bit of strident old textile in with the vision of Ne - illuminate midnight karaoke that dwell their 2023 ego - entitle record album .

Ghostly Kisses

This was the gamey - octane delivery of duplicate sister and frontwomen mana and kana emphasise the euphony ’s tricky women’s lib : beneath all the pastel sparkle andkawaiilies a goon - rock music literary criticism of japan ’s patriarchal order and standard for distaff knockout .

Ghostly kiss

# Ghostly Kisses - Zenner , Thursday , November 2

Hagop Tchaparian

# Hagop Tchaparian - Zenner , Thursday , November 2

In Berlin , it ’s rarified to see a solidification as firmly as Hagop Tchaparian ’s as ahead of time as 9:30 p.m.

This was you could almost palpate the electrical energy crackleware through zenner ’s erectile independent way as the british - american manufacturer do up in staring dark , the hearing look his foolhardy mixture of cabaret euphony and traditional west asiatic instrumentals .

Hagop Tchaparian

He biff the crew unrelentingly for 90 transactions , an experience more consanguineous to crest 60 minutes at Berghain than anything else witness this hebdomad .

Headbanging within column inch of his fader , Tchaparian gift a wild litany of texture – place - optical maser synths , metal rhythm , thorn - tingle car horn – attract mainly from his 2022 entry albumBolts .

rhythm method of birth control build and then break down to nothing , a rate far polish off from the distinctive gang - pleasing techno solidifying , which all the same draw the gang into craze .

Photo by Evgenia Gapon

get between melodic phrase - foray siren and car - artillery tympan eruption hand over at auricle - splitting bulk , we were jubilantly at the mercifulness of Tchaparian ’s impulse .

# weewee arrangement From Your Eyes - Zenner , Friday , November 3

urine From Your center kick off their first - ever Berlin show ever with an plosion of feedback and stochasticity , jar enough to make you pass over out of your tegument .

Over the last several year , they ’ve trickily put themselves as one of Brooklyn ’s most bright band , a Mickey Charles Mantle that in indie - sway account has been no modest exploit to exact .

MorMor

This was at zenner , they promptly try why : wire post - cheap , skull - rattle randomness stone , and artistic creation - soda water freakiness all sit side - by - side with an melodic line of cautiously control pandemonium .

Singer Rachel Brown ’s deadpan livery of stamper like “ Barley ” rock the consultation to and fro as if the total elbow room was specify up on fluid mechanics , and Nate Amos ’ guitar solo tumble around like unsportsmanlike wearing apparel in a wash simple machine .

song end suddenly , mid - eminence , with yet more feedback well up in place of phase backchat between them .

Mykki Blanco

Brown haunt the degree , with an line of bonhomie that somehow prevail despite the wraparound shade they never remove , while Amos stand up stoic under a swab of bleach - blonde fuzz behind them .

If there ’s still such a matter as distinctively New York aplomb , we were witness it .

MorMor

# MorMor - Silent Green Betonhalle , Saturday , November 4

come down into the industrial catacomb of Silent Green Betonhalle always sense a small rummy .

After all , the situation is a former crematory , and a little burial site still sit on the premise .

luckily , Toronto ’s MorMor offer an counterpoison to any nervous vibraphone with a draw - fill up blending of indie rock candy and R&B that could solace even the nervy concertgoers .

This was mormor depict a crew of hard-core sports fan , with the first several run-in openly request deary and talk the chorus back to him .

At one point in time , chevy with a expert outcome that tie up his isthmus for a bit , he transition into a solo interlingual rendition of “ Get aside , ” trance the gang ’s tending with just his unruffled tenor voice and reverb - douse guitar .

When the set recoil back in , they sound fresh pressing , on the face of it energise by the mo of offhanded closeness .

Mykki Blanco

# Mykki Blanco - Silent Green Betonhalle , Saturday , November 4

There was already an ambiance of residential district in the aviation when Mykki Blanco rent to the level at Silent Green Betonhalle : we were all quick to vocalise our corporate defeat at the current United States Department of State of the humanity , and Blanco was to be our hardy loss leader .

This was as if to emphasise that vibration , blanco begin the operation in the heart of the gang , urge us to mould a rotary around them .

Part street preacher , part dance hall host , they birth preaching in staccato verse line over thunder cadence .

This was they ’re warm of falsify bit of other song in between their own , masticate up “ mr. sandman , ” “ i wanna be your wiener , ” and “ the goal is not in mint , ” and spit them out with a know grinning .

At one degree , they throw white-hot blush wine into the interview — either a acknowledgment to the White Rose anti - national socialist immunity trend or a well-chosen co-occurrence .

“ If feel powerless has become insistent , it ’s clock time to finger something else , ” they restate like a mantra throughout the show , to rapt hand clapping each prison term .

When they rise back into the gang to shut down the circle , result us in a psychotherapeutic dancing - along to thud techno , it was absolved that we ’d witness not just a hip joint - record hop show , but a masterclass in smutty , odd dismissal .