System Exclusive (USA) + Cookie Jar Complot (Luxembourg) + More

System Exclusive
+ Cookie Jar Complot
Monday 27th May 2024
The New Adelphi Club
Tickets £6 Advance
Doors 8.00pm

* Can’t afford to see LIVE MUSIC in Hull?
Music for All Is What We Say!!!
Unwaged/Low Waged Pay What You Want On The Door!

System Exclusive

System Exclusive are Ari B and Matt Jones – a Pasadena, CA originated duo, balancing the hard edged electronic pulse of old school synthwerks against hot-under-the-collar live drums and slashing post-punk guitar. Ari’s melismatic alto completes the triangle, crowning the cyborg-rock compositions with a torn and vulnerable human edge. Faced with the near-impossible task of making a living in California while working as touring musicians, they put their life in storage, put a bed in the van, and have been living wherever the shows take them. On a mission to make strangers misty in the disco throughout the US, UK, and Europe…and wherever else fine records are sold.

The new album, ‘Click’ was conceived at maximum velocity across multiple borders, a venn diagram of clanging post-punk thrust, neon lavender synthesizer latticeworks, and Ari’s tough yet tender alto reaching for the streetlights. In the past two years System Exclusive have hauled their mini-synth “band in a backpack” to 12 different countries, 20 different US states and all around the UK in desperate search of a good time. They brazenly sought to record this album on the incredibly beautiful but isolated Portuguese island of Saõ Miguel, and experienced a superstition-confirming level of setbacks, equipment breaking, and cosmic nuttiness while tracking. Secret weapon and Bay Area producer extraordinaire K. Dylan Edrich took those island-cursed stems and cultivated them into the sculpture garden of tunes that now lay before you.
Current fancies include:
Shameover maintenance.
The Golden State.
Can you even afford to get out of bed?
Uteri in the USA.
Betrayal.
That syncing feeling.
Butt shakin’ vs full body sobs.
Carrying your life on your back.
Getting too little, too damn late.
‘Click’ and drag that ass onto the dance floor with these 10 moody bangers, taste-tested and battle bruised on stages across the decaying and decadent West. It’s out on Le Cepe Records (Worldwide) / MtSt Mtn (US) on May 17th.

+ Cookie Jar Complot

The Cookie Jar Complot is an instrumental post to math rock band from Luxembourg. Composed of the songwriting duo Sven Schmeler and Gilles Glesener, the band has been active since 2020.

In December 2021, the duo released their first EP CAVIAR CAPITAL. Their music is flowing in dynamic rhythms, post-rock soundscapes and intertwined guitar melodies. Drawing from a rich palette of influences, The Cookie Jar Complot also looked to other Luxembourgish acts to find their musical voices.

+ More