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Much love and thanks to our new homies @foreigndiplomats for letting us join them on their tour through Germany. We had such an amazing time. Make sure you give them a like/follow, they’re an absolutely killer band and great dudes. 🙌
We want to give a big thanks to our our dude @cole_michael_shoemaker for joining us on guitar for this tour. We had a ton of fun both on and off the stage. Thanks so much buddy, ya killed it. 💪
We’re back in the ‚hood. We had so much fun on tour with @foreigndiplomats in Germany. Much love to everyone who came out and to all the new friends we made along the way. See you next time 📷 @cole_michael_shoemaker
that was wild. We close out our tour with @foreigndiplomats tonight in at @kleine_freiheit. See you there.
that was fun! Tomorrow is another one we’ll see you tomorrow at @badehaus_berlin with our homies @foreigndiplomats ✌️🖤
is tight. See you tonight ✌️
All smiles. Thanks @brotfabrikffm we’ll see you tonight at Ostpol with the fabulous @foreigndiplomats
we’ll see you tonight at @brotfabrikffm with our Quebecoise homies @foreigndiplomats 🖤✌️
Hallo! We’re in🇩🇪 tonight at @milla_club with our Canadian pals @foreigndiplomats. We’d love to see you on this sunny Tickets in bio. 👆
Music
Hi, We Are The Kiez
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We Play
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Take Me Higher
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Biography
A duo based out of two continents, garage rockers The Kiez (pronounced Keetz) blend fuzzed out atmospheric rock with reverb laden soul and four on the floor dance bangers. Strangers introduced by mutual friends, Hamburg, Germany based producer and drummer Lucas Kochbeck and Lincoln, USA based ex Eagle Seagull frontman Eli Mardock hit it off right from the start.
The two quickly got to work sending demos and song ideas back and forth like a game of telephone played over the internet, and produced a collection of song demos that would eventually become their debut EP “ We Play” which was released on Hamburg, Germany label Clouds Hill on 2nd of February 2018, and their debut album „Hi, we are The Kiez“ which will be released via Warner Music Germany in 2019. Influences are worn on the sleeve, from artists as diverse as Iggy Pop, The Cure, Lou Reed, The Clash, Bowie, The Rolling Stones, even Peter Bjorn and John. But these RIYL tags are too easy, too lazy. The reality is The Kiez are worth a listen because they have qualities and sound uniquely their own.
Yes, they loosely define themselves as garage rock, but the band is perhaps more „musical“ than your typical garage rock while still full of the same swagger and dare I say sass.
The first songs from The Kiez came out of the blue.
„Well, I felt like that something wants to come out,“ says Lucas Kochbeck.
„This was just a chance to let it all out,“
Mardock says. „I bottle things up and stay pretty stoic usually. I open in songs. If I didn’t, I think I’d implode under the weight of everything.“ The songs quickly
morphed into more than angry breakup songs. „From basically the start, this band has never been about… hey, let’s make this insanely difficult, challenging album,etc.“ says Eli Mardock.
„This band is all about what comes naturally. We’re not trying too hard, not forcing anything. It’s all about what comes out sort of organically…everything is kind of in our sweet spot, in a way, because it’s not ruined by overthinking. We’re just going with what’s visceral, intuitive, our gut feelings, in all these songs.“ That confidence bleeds through every track of the band’s
full length “ Hi, we are The Kiez“, with the band assured enough to layer in shades of different influences from Spaghetti westerns to Lou Reed and Bowie. The duo recently spent 3 weeks at Clouds Hill Studio with Hamburg based producer Marcus Brosch tweaking and recording the tracks that would become their debut EP and LP
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