Netherlands photo by Nick Spadafora
Brooklyn, New York’s Netherlands are currently on an East Coast with tour Mouth Of The Architect after releasing their new album Audubon, which came out on Prosthetic Records earlier this year. For their tour diary they have graciously let us in on what has been going on during their trip with photos instead of a long written diary. Check out the pics and what the band has to say about them and the tour so far below.
Photo Tour Diary #2:
After an uneventful drive down (other than typical DC area traffic) we arrived in Richmond, at apparently its main downtown strip; a lot of college-y/ bohemian types milling around. The late ’90s are fairly blurry for me but I’m pretty sure I played at Strange Matter sometime back in the day. we unloaded, settled in, and got some free, mostly-vegetarian food at the bar, which included some delicious but somehow also slightly questionable “wings of soy”. The club people were all great, they were playing the ’80s band Quartz during dinner, which I’d never heard before. Tate (crew guy for MOTA) is easily in the running for the nicest guy ever and also has a portable Nintendo video game set up at their merch table; soweeeeet!
ZVI (again) was moody and fuckin’ brutal; in Ron’s own words, “Everyone’s got days like this.”
I’m now getting more of a sense of what MOTA is all about; for being as fucking dark and intense as they are there’s also gorgeousness and great grooves throughout (plus a fantastic video projection set up- see pic)
After unsuccessfully trying to hustle a place to stay we ended up opting for a local Super 8. we gave a friendly, but possibly-slightly-mentally-
ill-protest-Trump-voter a ride home before crashing out. In the morning we went to Waffle House where our orders ranged from conventional fare to “salads are maybe not a great idea here”. Off to Raleigh we go!
More on Netherlands:
Genre-bending New York-based band Netherlands sets out to share what VICE’s Noisey describes as “their own consistently excellent brand of punktastic choogle” in support of its latest album, Audubon, released on Prosthetic Records June 17th.Formed in 2009 by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Timo Ellis – whose dedication to the NYC art and music scene has seen him appear on almost 100 albums (including notable recordings and collaborations with Yoko Ono, The Melvins, John Zorn, Weenand Gibby Haynes) – the band is rounded out with Zach Eichenhorn on drums andAva Farber on synthbass. Credited for “ushering in a new wave of metal pop” (Noisey) with their “super fuzzed stoner rock” (CMJ), the band has played throughout New York with zealous incendiary live performances that recall the brutality of hardcore along with foreboding atmospheric elements reminiscent of the early proto-metal greats. Having an expansive three dimensional style of work, the band has supported a range of acts including Napalm Death, Melt Banana, Mutoid Man and The Giraffes.
View the video for their single, “Alien Pussy,” here.
View the video for their single, “Thrombosis,” here.
View the video for their single, “In Cyan,” here.
After a handful of recent shows with bands Retox and Spotlights, Netherland’s shows throughout October will be in support of Mouth of the Architect. Here, crowds will have the chance to see what Metal Injection described as “2016’s version of that band that everyone pretends they’ve been listening to all along, lest they have to admit that something this potent and immanently accessible has eluded their crate digger radar up until now”.
Upcoming Tour Dates w/ Mouth of the Architect:
October 13 – Savannah, GA @ The Jinx
October 14 – Nashville, TN @ The End
October 15 – Louisville, KY @ Mag Bar
Netherlands on Prosthetic Records
