Chris Imler @ Merlin Stuttgart

In the organizer's words:

ByteFM, Musikexpress, Musikblog, Bretford and Fun In The Church present: Chris Imler - The Internet will break my heart Tour

"The Internet will break my heart", Chris Imler's latest album, which will be released on February 28, 2025 on Fun in the church/ Moli Del Tro, marks the steepest artistic stage to date. We see a man whose entire oeuvre is a late work at the dizzying heights of his game. The topic is of annoying topicality. For it is only now that the world wide web is unfolding its full disappointing potential. All dreams of an emancipatory power of the digital multitude (remember Negri/Hardt, haha) are as completely extinguished as the Arab Spring was swallowed up by the pre-nuclear winter. While they are capped from above in authoritarian states, social media in the so-called free world are primarily used by lumpen capital to undermine humanist standards and by the remnants of the left for self-destructive polarization.

Imler's live shows are, to a certain extent, public rehearsals. Sketches that he makes on his laptop during his long and numerous travels are tried out on stage on the same evening, accompanied by ad hoc cobbled-together lyrics and drum work that he himself describes as "sloppy-emotional". His performance is deliberately chaotic, impulsive and, for all its Kreuzberg street toughness, heartfelt.