{"id":2272178,"date":"2026-02-08T04:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2272178"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:59:38","slug":"add-to-playlist-the-bizarro-punk-of-dutch-upstarts-grote-geelstaart-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/add-to-playlist-the-bizarro-punk-of-dutch-upstarts-grote-geelstaart-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Add to playlist: the bizarro punk of Dutch upstarts Grote Geelstaart and the week\u2019s best new tracks | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From <\/strong>Kapelle, Holland
Recommended if you like<\/strong> Black Midi, King Crimson, YHWH Nailgun
Up next<\/strong> New single Maalstroom out now<\/p>\n

Tight-fitted in scrimpy Sunday school apparel, Grote Geelstaart \u2013 Dutch for great yellowtail fish \u2013 make music that\u2019s 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\u2019s clinical chaos goes hand in hand with vocalist\/guitarist Luuk Bosma\u2019s primal punk dramaturgy, reminiscent of Nick Cave, James Chance and underrated Dutch punk thespians De Kift. This MO translates wonderfully to Grote Geelstaart\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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. Not just because of the high-density confluence of ideas and odd tempos within each track, but also because of their insistence on performing their lyrics exclusively in Dutch. Grote Geelstaart is a bit of a family affair too: Jesper and Jeppe are brothers, and Finley and Danny are their nephews. Frontman Bosma, a friend from school, rounds out the five-piece.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the one constant of Grote Geelstaart\u2019s perplexing shows is that they don\u2019t stay in the same place for very long: avant garde noise chicanery of Naked City and Boredoms variety can shift at any second towards oddball poetry. With tracks such as Spookrijden (meaning Ghost Driving, about a person forced to drive on the wrong side of the road), Barch \u2013 both from the 2025 EP Van Reijnst \u2013 and now the hyper-frenetic new single Maalstroom, the band\u2019s bold inversion of rock music feels primed to swallow up anything entering its orbit. Jasper Willems<\/em><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s best new tracks<\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Mind-expanding \u2026 Gnod.<\/span> Photograph: Jon Perry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gnod \u2013 Shadow Mirror<\/strong>
The Salfordian psych-rock unit are celebrating 20 years in the mind-expansion game with an album trilogy this year, and this is the first track from it: a slow ritualistic groove worshipping a huge jangling riff. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n

Picture \u2013 Tyyyyyyyyy<\/strong>
Issued on UK label of the moment Short Span, this is a sleekly functioning techno machine with an exquisite touch of Roul\u00e9-style filter house scuffing up the polish \u2013 and the bass drop is pure eyes-closed joy. (Available only on Bandcamp.<\/a>) BBT<\/em><\/p>\n

Eilish Constance \u2013 1 Plus 1<\/strong>
<\/strong>There\u2019s a musical-box sweetness to the 16-year-old US songwriter\u2019s spindly folktronica \u2013 reminiscent of Y2K acts such as Imogen Heap and Azure Ray \u2013 albeit with a goth undertow: \u201cMy toes bleed, I\u2019m lost,\u201d she sings. LS<\/em><\/p>\n

\u200bMarnz Malone \u2013 Splashin (ft J Hus)<\/strong>
From toting Uzis to treating women like frisbees, J Hus is on morally dubious but poetic form here, as is Marnz Malone, delivering gripping crime fiction over an organ-stacked, almost reggae-leaning beat. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever \u2013 Sunburned in London<\/strong>
<\/strong>The superb Melbourne indie band return with a seven-minute track musing on dislocation that shows off their rare alchemy: fraught yet breezy; rain-lashed yet sun-dappled. Gorgeous. LS<\/em><\/p>\n

Power Snatch \u2013 DMs<\/strong>
<\/strong>Hayley Williams has been anonymously teasing this new band with Daniel James since last summer. Their official debut EP kicks off with this sleepy, snaky recollection of love fading to a blur. (Available only on Bandcamp.<\/a>) LS<\/em><\/p>\n

X\u200baviersobased \u2013 Big Ben (ft Zaytoven)<\/strong>
Over a blissful Zaytoven beat with a two-note melody twinkling like moonlight on chrome, US rapper Xaviersobased slurs his words into a melodic stream of semi-stoned consciousness. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n

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