Human Abfall (Or Human Trash) hail from Stuttgart and Berlin, and even in the forth decade of Deutschpunk they manage to cut sharp and entertaining slogans between base and superstructure.  We down here, them up there.  Against a backdrop of thrashing noise, singer Flavio Bacon dada-lectures on burn-out, bourgeoisie and Bombenhagel, fabricating a claustrophobic cut-up of neoliberal reality. Their new album titled Tanztee von Unten can be understood as an update of Monarchie und Alltag, the legendary album of German post-punk icons Fehlfarben. Human Abfall’s sound is not too melodic, more distorted than Grauzone and more dense than Fugazi.  Berlin’s daily newspaper Taz likes them a lot and sees their kafkaesque analyses as «a sign for the Mitte-virus spreading pandemically over German cities, the hipsterfication having reached Swabia» – reverse-engineering Torstraße.  So in the end those Swabians are good for something.

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