Baltic Sea beaches and lagoons, sophisticated seaside resorts, vacationers, endless horizons, empty landscapes: That’s what it looks like in Western Pomerania, but that’s not necessarily how you imagine a ghetto. With MAYBE EVERYTHING WILL BE WELL, the Hinterland Gang proves once again that hip hop doesn’t necessarily have to grow in an urban environment. Albert Münzberg and Pablo Himmelspach come from Siedenbüssow, one of seven districts in the municipality of Alt Tellin, with a total of 366 inhabitants.
There you quickly learn that structurally weak is just another word for neglect and hopelessness – and from this attitude, as they explain in the first song, sensibly called “Beginning”, the duo sends news from this part of the country that lies under the overhead lines, through which the express trains only rush through, from “the east, here between tourist idylls and garden fences that are rusting”, i.e. “stories of the people who are slowly disappearing”. Alcohol and blood, anger and desperation, violence and often pathos flow through these stories, while the beats pump hard, the guitars always hit the twelve and synth pads are projected onto the ceiling of the indie disco.
It is news from the blind spot between the club and the campfire, between running away and staying behind, between fear of Nazis and the hope that everything will be okay, between the romantic yesterday of a “summer in Western Pomerania” and the now, as it is described in “Bring on the Beautiful Life”: “Abandoned shops, dilapidated facades, slogans on the walls, youth center, small garages.” Just as the Hinterland Gang is not reinventing electro-rap-punk, it is also merely varying its eternal message that the East is not yet lost – and must not be given up as lost. But this message is important.
This review appears in Musikexpress 2/2026.