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‘Yes, I Don’t Know, is the title track from the debut album by recent FatCat signings and Netherlands power trio Abdomen.

Opening with fragile, picking, floating in reverb, for a second, you’re fooled into thinking that you’re listening to a Robin Guthrie / Cocteau Twins tune, before serrated, cyclical slashing ‘serenades’ Peter Van Beets’ words concerned with the awful, crushing, gaping hole, of a lover’s passing. The cut climaxing in cathartic / agonised cries of ‘I can’t turn around!’

When asked about their often trance-inducing rhythms and riffs, Roel explains, “The repetitiveness, and build ups, are designed to be something to lose yourself in,” and states that this is inspired, in part, by the motorik of groundbreaking Kosmische band, Neu!.

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Yes, I Don’t Know