"Tight-fitted in scrimpy Sunday school apparel, Grote Geelstaart Dutch for great yellowtail fish make music that's decidedly less orthodox than appearances suggest. Drums skirmish with frighteningly efficient, jackhammer velocity; synths and guitars buzz and ring like fire alarms; the bass rumbles like a jammed freighter engine. Grote Geelstaart's clinical chaos goes hand in hand with vocalist/guitarist Luuk Bosma's primal punk dramaturgy, reminiscent of Nick Cave, James Chance and underrated Dutch punk thespians De Kift."
"This MO translates wonderfully to Grote Geelstaart's Zeelandic roots, a place where an intricate network of dykes is built and maintained to keep the unforgiving North Sea at bay: human ingenuity v lawless elements. Even within a surging landscape of bizarro rock upstarts, Bosma, Jesper Rottier (guitar, drums, vocals), Jeppe Rottier (bass), Danny Rottier (synths, saxophone), and Finley Nijsse (drums, vocals) are total outliers."
Grote Geelstaart is a Kapelle, Holland-based five-piece that pairs avant-garde noise with punk dramaturgy and Dutch-language lyrics. Tight-fitted in scrimpy Sunday school apparel, the band produces drums that skirmish with jackhammer velocity, synths and guitars that buzz like fire alarms, and a bass that rumbles like a jammed freighter engine. Vocalist/guitarist Luuk Bosma delivers primal punk dramaturgy reminiscent of Nick Cave, James Chance, and De Kift. The group draws on Zeelandic roots and the region’s network of dykes as thematic contrast between human ingenuity and the North Sea. Members include Bosma, brothers Jesper and Jeppe Rottier, Danny Rottier, and Finley Nijsse. Songs include Spookrijden, Barch, and the new single Maalstroom.
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