Nijhof & Toonk - II

As a sequel to the 2022 self-titled debut Nijhof & Toonk, and in the wake of their youth project Girotuna issued on Vrystaete, the duo returns to aural conduct with an album of new material.

Raised on an amalgam of pre-millennium culture, steeped in social disillusionment and the technological imaginary, their influences trace distinct sounds. Think home recordings by Smog, Bugskull, Azusa Plane, alongside the electronica of Muslimgauze and Vladislav Delay.

Nijhof & Toonk’s music is shaped by decades of collaboration. They periodically set up shop with analogue gear and instruments, jamming for entire weekends as an in-the-moment practice. What comes out is what you hear. A lucid friction that carries across each note. Onvolkomen (imperfect, or unconcluded, in Dutch) is how the artists themselves describe the work.