“de portables blijven onvoorspelbaar en geestig, maar op ‘It’s Time To Leave This World Behind’ valt toch vooral op hoe goed ze zijn.” (HUMO)

“De nieuwe plaat van de peetvaders van de Belgische slaapkamermuziek is opnieuw heerlijk lo-fi en typisch portables in alle opzichten, muzikaal spannend en inhoudelijk zeer geestig.” (Duyster - Stubru)

Musical collective de portables , from Ghent, have been writing gems together for 16 years now, shelterd from the Flemish commercial musical circus, far from hit-lists and sales figures. That also goes for their latest LP, their seventh now, which is only available on vinyl and in digital format via the Italian Almost Halloween Time Records. There was a quite lot of messing around with folktronica, post-rock, lo-fi, psychedelic noise and slowcore again and that musical mash, entitled ‘It’s Time To Leave The World Behind’, tastes terrific once more. The album title refers to a three-part space-rock opera, something to do with parallell dimensions, aliens and rockets. The hilarious, crazy lyrics full of absurd stories are the perfect packaging for necessary dose of social criticism.

This quartet has a very rich imagination and that manifests itself in exciting and adventurous music. Don't look to de portables for standard pop clichés or regurgitated melodies, something we at AB can't help but applaud (loudly). Be sure to check out their ingenious Dinosaur Jr.-cover of ‘No Bones’ and the lullaby ‘Regenbomen’, sung in West-Flemish .

Their end-of-year tour wasn't able to go ahead because drummer Wio D’Hespeel broke his wrist so the concert in AB will be the first in a hopefully long series for de portables. http://portables.bandcamp.com/

Following excursions with Raketkanon, Senne Guns, Low Vertical and a heap of other musical projects (including producing the albums of Kapitan Korsakov and Renée), the five guys from Tomàn once again dived into a studio together. The title of number four is ‘Postrockhits volume II’ - a slight sneer toward the style they always got saddled with for previous albums - and expectations are high following the fantastic ‘Where Wolves Wear Wolf Wear’, from ’09. Focus Knack wrote of it: “Daring and adventurous piece of work that deserves thunderous applause” and we're almost certain that hands will be hitting hard again for their ‘Postrockhits’. Tomàn promises a quasi instrumental album full of filmic cosmic-krautrock - whereby the keyboard wins from the guitar - with bands like Can, Fuck Buttons and Oneohtrix Point Never as points of reference. A fine promise we soon like to see kept!

Tomàn – stream soundcloud 'Postrockhits Volume II'