iedereen

Growing up a long way from the big city, Ron Huefnagels and Tom Sinke met when they were in kindergarten, and without knowing it planted the seeds for their musical careers. The band is based on friendship and solidarity, which also inspired the two amateur musicians from Emmerich on the Lower Rhine to come up with their name. Iedereen, which means ‘all’ in Dutch, reflects the tone so successfully captured by the due on their debut album of the same name last year. Old-school German punk dives into the mosh pit with new wave and indie rock, but also grabbing the odd fistful of post-punk revival or alternative rock. The songs are called ‘GKO’ or ‘Weißes Rauschen’, include cultural, historical and socio-critical references as well as echoing a disillusioned ennui akin to the very same feeling that Fehlfarben or Fliehenden Stürme yelled at society over 40 years ago. But it’s not the past that the duo care about. The status quo in all its flawed facets is the topic of the hour for them – whether it's self-care on Sunday or a sociopathic media, self-discovery of the modern man or oppression experienced by modern women, hedonism or hopelessness. The two-man sound is inspired by bands such as Wire and Devo, but thanks to producer Kurt Ebelhäuser (Donots, Pascow, Adam Angst and others), it also sprints into the future, its fist raised – not worried about falling, and in no way fixated by commercial and stylistic conventions.