Tickets für THE HOMESICK & GEO (art-pop/indie, nl) & (post-punk/no-wave, nl) 22.09.26 in Berlin, Schokoladen

puschen & little league shows prsnt:

THE HOMESICK // art-pop / exp-indie, nl
thehomesick.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/thehomesick0519

& GEO // post-punk / no-wave, nl
geoband.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/geo__band

live at Schokoladen. doors 19.00, concert starts 20.00 Uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/4hso1ww 

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Dogma-eschewing yet restlessly romantic, THE HOMESICK are chiefs of their own musical mushroom kingdom. For over a decade, the Dokkum-based trio have never been afraid of reinvention From the baroque post-punk experiments of lauded Sub Pop released LP ‘The Big Exercise', to the guitar-abandoning Animal Collective-flexes of their 2023’s self-titled release, the band have established themselves as a curiously formidable force within The Netherlands’ rich alternative-rock landscape.

Charging the retrofuturist technological mania of Yellow Magic Orchestra with the band’s distinctive new-wave/art-rock wonkiness, raging synth-lines and aberrant guitar licks abound, teasing yet another era in the group’s singularly curious and expansive career-to date. A more muscular, pulse-driven kind of alien club music, ‘Esperanto’ corrals their wide span of influence into something moreish, highly inventive and ceaselessly fun.

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Post-punk/no wave oddity GEO (KJ Braams (bass) Jorne Visser (vocals/guitar), Gijs Deddens (drums) and Ype Zijlstra (keys, electronics) are like a sentient slot machine: whatever seems happenstance is actually by design, and the more mismatched the moving parts appear, the more their music starts to make sense. Since the Groningen quartet’s inception in 2019, they have built a framework of skeletal agit-funk, cartoonish chromatics and neoteric art punk vignettes – sketching negative spaces where chaos and cacophony can sound perplexingly catchy. After releasing their esteemed EP in 2021, the band has entered its next creative chapter.

Out of Body – Geo’s long-awaited debut album – is an oblong snow globe utopia where dancing with two left feet is an actual custom. Out on Erste Theke Tontraeger on April 26, 2024 – this collection of songs constitutes material Geo have been writing and performing when they first entered the circuit. These jitterbug, birdbrained post-punk spiels are in the spirit of gung-ho deconstructionists like The Contortionists, The Fall and Gang of Four. On Out of Body the band play emotions out against each other like some kind of absurdist Punch and Judy show.