What Are People For?

Of course, you could call What Are People For? a band, but that doesn’t really do justice to the overall experience that Manuela Rzytki, Anna McCarthy, Tom Wu, and Paulina Nolte create for their audience. It creaks, it crashes, it sounds like dirt and disco and Dada. On their self-titled album, the Munich quartet ask us directly, »Why are you so squeaky clean?«, spitting a song at us that combines childish counting rhymes with home-shopping show performances and the overly theatrical, nostalgic sound of The B-52s – cleverly concealing the political statements tucked within. This wild combination also impressed The Notwist’s Acher brothers, who released the debut of What Are People For? in 2022. The only remaining question is whether we can find out, when the band takes the stage of Frannz Club, what the purpose of people actually is. We’re optimistic.