13:Curves (album release) + A Plague of Lighthousekeepers

13:Curves hail from Haarlem the Netherlands. The History of the band and its members go back over 20 years. Jan(drums), Armand (Guitar) and Renato(bass) have played in many different bands togethers. Jan & Armand have played together in El Camino and the chimney brothers and all three members have at one point played in Labasheeda. But the music they made as a threesome has always been their main focus. This has been a multi-faceted beast. Sometimes Dead Dove District, sometimes (we lived like) Cobra66, but it all started with 13:curves and will continue as such. With a new Album (in the works), a shitload of new songs and a newfound energy to rival bands haf their age. Taking not only from their own music history but also from postrock pedigree as Mogwai, Tortoise and Trans am, noisegroups as Sonic Youth …..  as well as stoner/sludge masters as Kyuss, Melvins and Fu manchu. 

From long songs to short, from soft to loud from dark to light expect to be surprised, mesmerized and to be left with a feeling of wanting more.

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (NL/US)
Whilst the name ‘A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers’ refers to multiple different artworks, including the song by Vandergraaf Generator of the same name and the Robert Eggers 2019 film, the Haarlem based metal band has developed a style that is uniquely their own. It’s perhaps because the struggle and isolation of the Lighthouse Keeper became so much more vivid to all of us, during the extended periods of isolation during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Using Sludge, Post and Doom-Metal as a vehicle for free artistic, political and personal expression, the quartet is currently working on their debut both in the studio and on stage.

Musically, the Lighthouse Keepers sound like a disturbed lovechild between OM, Sumac, Swans, Miles Davis and Pandit Pran Naath. They combine lengthy improvisations with ear shattering explosions of intensity. Lyrically, their songs deal mostly with death, personal struggle, religion and political philosophy, hence using their desperate shrieks, earsplitting cymbals, noisy guitarpalette and thumbing repetitive basspaterns to create a dialectical counterpoint to contemporary pop culture. It’s the punk rock of a failed generation, drowning in anger and filth yet too tired to organize a revolution. Still, The Lighthouse Keepers also manage to find small moments of undeniable beauty and fragility as so to perhaps spark a glimmer of hope in a world torn by pandemics, war and economic oppression.