Tramhaus

"Tramhaus are content to allow their discontent to tailspin into madness: a maelstrom where words, electricity, pulse and feedback gyrate like a hurricane striking a scrapyard." Under The Radar

“fun, riotous and extremely, extremely cool.” Crack Magazine

“a vortex of catchy noise." The Quietus

“A dark slice of bass driven post punk you can dance to” Louder Than War

“Untameable” So Young Magazine

Following news of the band’s debut album The First Exit - due 20th September 2024 via Dutch indie Subroutine -  as well a string of festival appearances and headline shows across the EU/UK,  Rotterdam Post-punk 5-piece Tramhaus share creeping new cut ‘Once Again’ - out now (24th May).

Earning its premiere on Seattle’s KEXP radio this week, the follow-up to last month’s raucous single ‘Beech’ showcases the more mysterious facets of the Tramhaus oeuvre. Assured, steady, and discretely dangerous, ‘Once Again’ wades through indolent vocal lines, thumping rhythms, and mournful lead guitar squalls before crashing and thundering in a fury of joyous, uplifting punk-rock abstraction. Carrying echoes of Pixies, Fat White Family, or fellow Dutch trailblazers Personal Trainer in its wake, it’s a sound that yet remains resolutely Tramhaus’ own, fueled by the near-symbiotic relationship between the five band members.

The track comes paired with a music video by Peter Marcus, one that utilised a random number generator to compile the hoards of untitled videos that uploaded to Youtube during lockdown in 2020, as the band explain:

“As an ode to the absurdism of the digital age we are living in, this music video highlights the peculiar phenomenon of people uploading uncut videos to YouTube without giving it a title or context.The result is a quick paced experimental documentary short of seemingly unrelated footage on which the audience can project their own associations, making it that the meaning derived from it may differ per spectator. It is art in its barest form, as aesthetically speaking there is no real value to it. It is like a story without text, a film without a script. It solely exists on our innate ability to create our own stories with whatever we have at hand.”

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Since forming in 2021, Tramhaus have released four 7” vinyl singles and a 12” ‘Rotterdam’ EP, meanwhile featuring as KEXP’s Song of the Day, and receiving press support in the UK from The Quietus (who featured the band in April), So Young, Crack Magazine, Louder Than War, Rough Trade Counter Culture and MOOF magazine.

With headline tours across France, Germany, the UK, and rest of Central and Northern Europe to their name, the band’s prodigious touring schedule can boast a seven-day tour of Japan last November, eight performances at SXSW 2024, plus festival slots at Best Kept Secret, Levitation France, Sziget, Colours of Ostrava, Dour, Tremor, Les Vielles Charrues, as well as at spotlight showcases ESNS, The Great Escape, MaMa, Tallinn Music Week and Reeperbahn.

Readying for the release of their debut album The First Exit on 20th September via fiercely independent Dutch label Subroutine Records, Tramhaus perform at a host of major European Festivals this summer ahead of a mammoth 28-date/10 country headline tour, later this year, commencing on 2nd October at iconic Amsterdam venue Paradiso