THE HOMESICK (exp-indie / art-pop, nl) & GEO (post-punk / no-wave, nl)

puschen & little league shows present:

THE HOMESICK// art-pop / experimental 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 open at 7:00 p.m., concert starts at 8:00 p.m. Presale tickets available at -->https://vvk.link/4hso1ww 

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Dogma-eschewing yet restlessly romantic,THE HOMESICKare the rulers of their own musical mushroom kingdom. For over a decade, the Dokkum-based trio has never been afraid to reinvent itself—from the baroque post-punk experiments of their acclaimed Sub Pop LP *The Big Exercise* to the guitar-free, Animal Collective-inspired sounds of their 2023 self-titled release, the band has established itself as a curiously formidable force within the Netherlands’ rich alternative-rock landscape.

Infusing the retrofuturistic technological mania of Yellow Magic Orchestra with the band’s distinctive new wave/art-rock quirkiness, the album is brimming with raging synth lines and unconventional guitar licks, hinting at yet another chapter in the group’s singularly curious and expansive career to date. A more muscular, pulse-driven kind of alien club music, “Esperanto” channels their wide range of influences into something addictive, highly inventive, and endlessly fun.

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Post-punk/no wave oddityGEO(KJ Braams (bass), Jorne Visser (vocals/guitar), Gijs Deddens (drums), and Ype Zijlstra (keys, electronics) are like a sentient slot machine: whatever seems like a coincidence 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 formation 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 acclaimed 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. Released on Erste Theke Tontraeger on April 26, 2024, this collection of songs comprises material Geo have been writing and performing since they first entered the music scene. These jitterbug, birdbrained post-punk numbers are in the spirit of gung-ho deconstructionists like The Contortionists, The Fall, and Gang of Four. On *Out of Body*, the band pits emotions against one another like some kind of absurdist Punch and Judy show.