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Abdomen

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Abdomen announce new album Yes, I Don’t Know out 21st February 2025 via FatCat Records & share title-track.

Recently signed to FatCat Records, Abdomen announce their new album Yes, I Don’t Know out 21st February 2025. They also share the title-track as a new single. Their name coming from a joke that reflects the directness of their approach - a “gut feeling”.

Abdomen, are a Netherlands power trio, based in Leeuwarden, Frisia, up in the country’s North. Sometimes described in the Dutch press as “post-grunge garage”, they themselves are keen to avoid any pigeon-holes or genre labels.

Joining previous single ‘Dazed’, ‘Yes, I Don’t Know’ opens with fragile, picking, floating in reverb, for a second fooling you into thinking that you’re listening to a Robin Guthrie / Cocteau Twins tune, before serrated, cyclical slashing “serenades” singer Peter Van Beets’ words concerned with the awful crushing, gaping hole, of a lover’s passing.


On the track, drummer Roel Meijer says

“The track is a reflection of what feels like to be caught in the midst of an insurmountable struggle, an overwhelming barrage of noise, confusion andtension, which seems to intensify as time goes on. It’s the longing for an endpoint, a journey to a place of calm, focus and normality”


The band consists of Roel Meijer on drums, Ate Kamsma on bass, and Peter van Beets on vocals and guitar. All come from families passionate about music, but only Roel received any training in the traditional sense. Roel and Peter are old school friends, who reconnected some years after graduation with the idea of making music.


Thanks to COVID, Abdomen’s new album Yes, I Don’t Know took something like 2 years to record. Working with Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown in Denmark, the songs were fine-tuned through extensive rehearsal, performance, and sometimes totally transformed in the studio. The lead single ‘Dazed' for example, began as a demo set at a frantic pace. It was Rasmus who suggested slowing it down - “Something like 5 times” - morphing, mutating, the track into an epic, melodic, psyche mantra with chanting vocals and psychedelic shredding.

Peter’s lyrics can sometimes be extremely personal, but the band are at pains to point out that it’s the listener’s interpretation that’s all important. In the past Abdomen have been called “angry”, however if the album has an overriding message or theme, then it’s about coming to terms with your emotions, cauterising wounds, growing, and moving on.

Photo by Alwin Sinnem


Tour Dates

24th October - Supersonic, Paris

15th November - Slachthuis Haarlem, NL





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