Das Erste Mal comes to Pioneer Works for a live set that moves between rock/pop structure and freer, open-ended passagework. The performance treats the venue less as a stage than as a working room, where repetition, drift, and sudden resets become the material. In New York, where genre boundaries often read as social boundaries, this approach matters for how plainly it refuses them. The earned observation is simple: the music’s discipline shows up not in polish, but in how long it can hold uncertainty without collapsing.