There’s something deeply refreshing, especially in this era of hunting “likes” and appeasing the algorithm, about seeing someone making exactly the music they want to make for no reason other than that it’s what they want to do.

Twenty-some years ago he played a major role in restoring my faith in Rock music after years of Nu Metal and Post-Grunge had pretty well convinced me to look elsewhere, and ever since I’ve regarded him as a kind of kindred spirit who seems to like a lot of the same music I do for a lot of the same reasons that I like it.

A band from the Dutch indie rock hotbed of Utrecht for whom layering myriad influences onto a solid heavy retro-rock foundation seems to come as naturally as breathing.