Stonks

STONKS // CWRW

We’re bringing Belgian post-punks Stonks to Carmarthen this November – tickets on sale now!

A year after the release of their first EP Class Craic, Stonks is already a very different band, having exorcised their anxieties through an extended creative immersion, with the help of their long-time collaborator, Jacopo Donelli, aka painful2remember, for another five tracks of post-punk noise. This time the influence of the shoegaze scene beautifully illustrates the evolution of the Brussels-based band, providing a saturated backdrop where introspection justifies the explosion.

At an average age of 22, the "leaderless" band has matured and gained considerable distance from their hybrid identity as neo-urbanites "between forest and pavement." The carefree spirit of Class Craic is now behind them; Stonks fully embraces its loss of lightness and darkens the atmosphere. Confronted, albeit reluctantly, with the end of innocence, the quartet maintains the tension and gains depth, always well supported by the soaring brass of indispensable trumpeter Mathis Jeanne, who, depending on the mood, either plays a distorted death knell or evokes cinematic melancholy.

Like many of their illustrious predecessors, Stonks has dived into the eternal well of existential doubt, and with this new EP, they venture to highlight contrasts, embrace ambivalence, and orchestrate their reflections with unsettling maturity.

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