This Friday, August 26, The Anaesthetics will release their debut album 1080. This will only be available digitally at first. It will also be released on CD and vinyl on Friday, September 16.

1080: an album full of idiosyncratic and unpredictable Modern New Golf from Horst aan de Maas (Limburg). The Anesthetics developed danceable elements with orthodox guitar parts and romantic influences, based under the name Modern New Wave.

The band has already targeted several milestones: various major shows in the Netherlands, support acts for Other Lives (US) and Flying Horseman (BE) and the (just not) winning various band competitions (such as Nu of Nooit, Grote Prijs van Nederland).

So it’s time for a debut album. That is why the four gentlemen wrote more than a hundred songs in one year! A job that could only be done with an arsenal of instruments and a high work ethic. Armed with synths, guitars and software, they produced track after track. Not only during rehearsals, but also at home: living rooms and bedrooms were transformed into real music studios. A mega project that is finally bearing fruit, because the ten tracks form debut album 1080 from now on.

1080 will be available on all streaming platforms from Friday, August 26, and can now be pre-ordered via the Gentlemen Webshop. CD and Vinyl will be released on Friday September 16th.

We are delighted that the Dutch indie band The Anaesthetics signed a record contract with us. First single will be released soon!

We are going to release a first single withing 2 months, followed by a number of singles and later an album. More to be announced!

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Stranglehold is the second single from the upcoming EP by dutch alternative rockband Grenadeers. The song deals with the familiar story of not fitting in, being casted out, trying to serve an environment that doesn’t serve you.

The band draws on first hand experience, as frontman Siep van Rijswijk was a highschool dropout and had troubles to find his way within the educational system. Eventually he found a safe harbour in music, and the song reflects the feeling of empowerment this brought about. 

A song for all the misfits
‘Stranglehold’ poses critique on how society deals with eccentric people: they’re perceived as an inconvenient disruption within the general course of affairs. But most of all, Stranglehold is a song for all the misfits.

This new track is the successor to the successful first single ‘Single Filter Exit’, which received very good critical acclaim, and which, among other things, spent weeks at the top of the IndieXL Free40 Chart and could count on airplay in England and Australia.

Go check ‘Stranglehold’ out!

“Stranglehold” is now available as a digital single in our webshop. Or check it out on Spotify or YouTube:

Today alternative rock band Grenadeers released their single “Single Filter Exit”. It is the second single of the forthcoming EP, which is planned for this summer.

A single in a post-apocalyptic scene

The song is set in a post-apocalyptic scene, in which none of the Paris Agreement’s long term climate goals were met. The band deals with the question on how they would look back on the times we live in now, while searching their own conscience as well. They wonder if they were also guiltly, standing in the midst of it all without truly grasping the width of the problem because they were absorbed by their daily worries. It’s not a comfortable notion, and in this song there’s no happy end. But it is an honest reflection of what occupies the band’s minds in these turbulent times.

Lyric video

A lyric video also came with the track, where images are shown in the background that fit the realms of climate change. Not an easy subject, but good to face, says Grenadeers.

The first single was about the fact that social media is taking over too much of our lives, and at the same time we are not very social and not looking around at things that really matter. In this way the band tries to draw attention to a social problem in every song.

Go check it out!

“Single Filter Exit” is now available as a digital single in our webshop. Or check it out on Spotify or YouTube:

We are delighted that the Dutch rockband Grenadeers signed a record contract with us. First single ‘Single Filter Exit’ will be released in March, followed by an album later this year!

Grenadeers is an alternative rockband from Utrecht. In 2016 they released their first EP Chasing the Stereotype. In 2019 they came with their first full length album How To Fit In. In that same year they played the after party for Smashing Pumpkins in AFAS Live in Amsterdam. From that show they made a live album called Live Wires. Also in 2019 they had four shows at ‘Popronde’, the biggest traveling music festivals in The Netherlands.

Their first EP and album clearly show inspiration from Queens of the Stone Age. With their new EP they will create their own sound. We are really looking forward to give that one a boost!

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