The mysterious duo reveals digital stupidity over dull boller beats.
“I hate haters,” says the digital native, who considers “substantial content” to be “extremely important”, but then posts a photo of his own behind to get his “social media game” back on track. “My ass” is the name of the song that works according to the same principle as all the others on DU WILL SEHEN / GRAUER STAR, Augn’s double debut album: It doesn’t matter whether it’s on Tinder (“Ficki Ficki”), in Berlin’s hipster districts (“Vintage “) or among the would-be fortune hunters of capitalism 2.0 (“Bitcoin”), everywhere they mercilessly expose the mendacity and stupidity of this world, which mainly takes place online – and that very simply by simply letting the protagonists talk, because they not only unmask themselves and their luxury problems, but voluntarily make themselves Heinz.
Ironically, the duo, who are hiding behind stocking masks, are using the same principle as the trash TV they caricatured in “RTL” – albeit with a completely different intention. Although, do you know? Because who is behind Augn is top secret. However: In view of who they let talk about what, one can assume that they live in Berlin. Their dull sound, which knows exactly one guitar riff and one beat idea per song and definitely doesn’t need more, is more reminiscent of British role models, only that they preferred to replace the anger of The Fall or Sleaford Mods with bitter cynicism, who acts completely uninvolved – and thus comes across as even more cutting.