Photo reportage of our two day Ostendian adventure back in May, in glorious early 2000 point n shoot quality courtesy of our lady Belgrado. Nobody fell into the ocean, except for Timmy D's sense of self 🥲

Visual stills of the most salient moments gone down during last month's Azone KRAAK Karavan with Apulati Bien & fiends! Reliving the mostly offstage moments & roadside snacking scene, presented with minimal commentary thank god.

Still high from the cloud that was this year's KRAAK Festival and already got some sweet photo souvenirs from the always great Hans van der Linden. Synthetic meanderings, utopic drone settings, voices like lava, songs like wildfires, intravenous noise excursions and floaty rhythms for eternal dancing: all are captured here for the now and the tomorrows. Next year ain't soon enough, we tells ya <3

Rounding off this year's artist highlights is Leeds' own sonic terrorizer Petronn Sphene::::: known as one half of explosive insectoid rock duo Guttersnipe, Petronn Sphene’s No Wave Rave is a frenzied force of drum machine chaos, xenomorph shriekings and shards of noiseful synthwaves coming from every which way. Here she gets the juices going on the eve of her performance at our fest ~ unfiltered and unhinged utter realness, just the way we love 'er!!

May the Belgian folkways hail their new queens (and Jelle): Luster is a sextet formed in 2012 by a group of friends and music lovers from the East and West Flanders fields. Cello, ukulele, flute, harmonium and violin meet the guitar-bass-drums trifecta in a quirky crossroads where ancestral doom folk, heady post rock and Stereolab-tinged pop seamlessly meet. Behold, the most candid conversation about music, influences, not-wanting-to-be-the-saxophone-player and post-birth trivia that we were kicked out of the room for!