In this second batch of releases, you can discover recent and newly released music from the artists who will take to the stage at Rewire’s fourteenth festival edition in The Hague across the weekend of 3 to 6 April 2025. Check out Part 1 here, and read our first artist and projects announcement for all the details you need to know about our upcoming festival edition. For further listening, be sure to check out our Rewire 2025 Playlist, which features tracks from all the artists who will be performing.
Good Sad Happy Bad – consisting of CJ Calderwood, Raisa Khan, Mica Levi, and Marc Pell – infuse their snarling music with krautrock, punk, and pop elements. Their latest album, All Kinds of Days (2024) is imbued with a gritty, raw quality captured from improvised sessions layered with haunting, chorus-like vocals. Themes of healing, loss, and home-building resonate throughout, creating a textured, experimental work that promises an intriguing live rendition at Rewire 2025.
Lukas De Clerck, a Brussels-based composer, musician, and artist, brings a ceremonial and primal quality to his work. Specialising in the aulos, a long-extinct double-reeded Greco-Roman instrument, he has spent years mastering reed-making and reimagining the aulos in innovative ways. His 2024 release, The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas, transforms the aulos into a sculptural, telescopic tool, immersing listeners in otherworldly soundscapes.
Able Noise is a guitar and drum duo composed of Alex Andropoulos and George Knegtel based in The Hague. Their warble-core energy sweeps through their album High Tide (2024), punctuated with cassette tapes, voice, and bustling field recordings. This extremely detailed, dilated semi-universe brings forward the intimacy of a bonfire and the whimsical dizzy disorientation of a carousel.
The post-hardcore band Moin, comprising Tom Halstead, Joe Andrews, and percussionist Valentina Magaletti, explores new terrain with You Never End (2024). It is a percussive journey with slanted guitars enriched with diverse vocal collaborators. Among others, we encounter Olan Monk's lyrical overflow, artist, and writer Sophia Al-Maria with a haunting spoken word contribution, soft vocalist and producer james K, and Rewire alum Coby Sey. Monk and Al-Maria will perform with Moin at Rewire 2025, promising a rich live show.
Nala Sinephro is a Caribbean-Belgian composer and musician gifting the listener with a relaxed twirling sonic dimension. The London-based artist learned through collaboration, mastering harp and synthesiser. Her work Endlessness (2024) confirmed her spiritual jazz inclinations, delighting with a diffused patience: how a flower, in the process of blossoming in flickering light, would sound.
Poet and rapper Isaiah Hull spirals back and forward above dark glitchy beats. The self-proclaimed stand-up tragedian rips lyrics from the gut with meandering inner dialogues and political reflections. The latest album t he d esir e d efec t (2024) outlines an uncomfortable, deconstructed living room; a sentimental labyrinth where love and anger become antennae for a pure, venting storytelling as if something was wrong but music might fix it.
Seefeel, Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock’s duo, is known for their pioneering blend of electronic experimentation and dub-infused ambient harmonics. The ethereal Everything Squared (2024) released with Warp Records, marks their return after almost 15 years. Melodic whispers and foggy basses fill this shoeagazy flickering dimension.
De Schuurman, bubbling genre master – a sped up 80s Afro-diasporic dancehall variation started in The Hague – recently released Bubbling Forever (2024) with Nyege Nyege Tapes, and will make his Rewire debut in 2025. His energetic dancefloor assemblages display acidic laser synths, Antillean tambu percussion, provocative vocals, and Surinamese melodies, among others.
Good Sad Happy Bad, Lukas De Clerck, Able Noise, Moin, Nala Sinephro, Isaiah Hull, Seefeel, and De Schuurman will perform live at Rewire 2025. Book tickets via rewirefestival.nl/tickets