Relase Date: Matrch 6th, 2026
Label: Misitunes (LP/Digital)
SHATTEN: Hamburg Based INDIE-PUNKS to Release New Full-Length “Gegenwart” March 6th via MISITUNES. New Single and Video “Chinaschilf” Now Streaming Everywhere via THIS LINK. Live Dates Announced!
Chinaschilf is the first single from shatten’s upcoming album ‚Gegenwart’ (present). Chinaschilf was written in response to the question “How can we deal with all the idiots without becoming one ourselves?” To this end, we follow shatten in the footsteps of a hermit, a life in retreat, in order to escape social pressure and the standardisation that comes with it. But can that be the solution: leaving the city and living from hand to mouth in an old nursery?
Or does turning away threaten to descend into lived ignorance, into the megalomania of the individual? Shatten have no answer to these questions, but with Chinaschilf they have created a soundtrack for the search : guitar melodies meander like wild growth through the parts of the song. It seems as if you can hear the thin glass panes of a greenhouse clinking on dusty paths. And yet everything has an obscure order, as if The Police and Viagra Boys had met in a remote place to garden together.
The new album GEGENWART by shatten will be released on 6 March 2026 on Misitunes.
In her novel The Employees, Olga Ravn asks the question: ‘How to stay soft in a hard world?’ – And this very question could be the theme of shatten’s new album: How do you stay soft in a hard world?
‘Stand in the way of things. Learn to contradict language.’ This is how shatten express their unease about a world with increasingly hardened fronts and escalating conflicts in their song Chinaschilf. A time in which the climate crisis is noticeably intruding into people’s lives and everyday routines.
A time in which male egos are reducing the world to rubble and ashes, and conversations about humanity and social needs seem like a parody of past dreams. In view of this, shatten are searching for a new language, for softness in the midst of a harsh world. The lyrics revolve around questions of resistance, as in Chinaschilf or Raben. Introspective observations such as in Apokalypse and diffuse fears such as in Paranoia or Der Gast stand out just as much as the naive desire for a new beginning, for example in Cowboy or in Wuppertal.
shatten take their time, breaking away from their punk roots in places and opening themselves up to a freer, more playful version of themselves. The album puts you in a good mood, while remaining exciting and varied. The vocals are mostly delicate and clear, only at decisive moments do they become direct and aggressive. The instrumentation also seems more playful and less stoic than on the previous albums.
And even though shatten’s origins in the Hamburg indie rock scene are evident, American indie rock bands such as The National, Modest Mouse and Built to Spill are more likely to be cited as references. In German-speaking countries, their sound is reminiscent of bands such as Erregung öffentlicher Erregung, International Music and Die Nerven.
Shows:
12.03.2026 Bremen – Eisen
13.03.2026 Flensburg – Volksbad
21.03.2026 Hamburg – Molotow
10.04.2026 Mühlheim a.d.R. – das Kaff
Artist: shatten
Album: GEGENWART
Release date: 6 March 2026
Label: Misitunes
EAN: 4251896120921
All songs were written by shatten
Produced by Kristian Kühl
Mastered by Helge Hasselberg
Shatten are:
Danny Steinmeyer
Jonas Kohlschmidt
Stefan Kühl
Simeon Melchior