The Hobknobs (Lewsberg/The Klittens members) share debut songs and cassette release
The Hobknobs
Announce debut three-track release, out digitally and on cassette
Listen to new single "The Mind" here
UK tour this summer
Introducing The Hobknobs, a new duo from Rotterdam and The Hague made up of Yaël Dekker (The Klittens) and Arie van Vliet (Lewsberg).
To describe the music of The Hobknobs, use the word ‘natural’. And what you will mean is: fitted to itself; essentially, albeit politely, uninterested in whether or not you’re looking. You might think of early rock ’n’ roll and you’ll be thinking of its energetic nonchalance and honest economy minus any sentimentality.
The first three songs Yaël Dekker and Arie van Vliet recorded as a duo are released as a cassette single called ‘The Hobknobs Gather No Moss’, out now via Bandcamp. The songs were recorded by Jaap van der Velde at Katzwijm, Voorhout, during the first days of spring. All cassette covers are handmade artworks, made with oil pastels and Conté.
Sonically and lyrically, the elements of the songs dovetail showing how they move but giving no temptation to take them apart. Dekker and van Vliet have long admired each other's music but their collaboration here is not a closed conversation -- at the same time colloquial and cerebral, we are invited in, if we can hang. As a natural thing is self-possessed, The Hobknobs deftly maneuver so that we stand with them, hearing and seeing with them, and find that each song is a place to be.
The Hobknobs - "The Mind"
Youtube: https://youtu.be/mmjCtqaDcLs?si=qDdIGJGdKf5Jlei1
Stream/Buy The Cassette:
https://correctcassettes.bandcamp.com/album/gather-no-moss
UK Live Dates
10th May - The Windmill, London (Klitfest)
25th June - Shacklewell Arms, London
26th June - Thekla, Bristol (w/ Horsegirl)
27th June - The Arts Badge, York
28th June - Just Dropped, Coventry
29th June - Tap Social, Oxford (Oh, Community!)
30th June - JT Soar, Nottingham
1st July - The Holloway, Norwich
‘Gather No Moss’ Tracklist:
1. The Mind
2. My Conditions
3. Are You Looking For Something?
CONNECT:
thehobknobs.net
