Belgrado

About

" Music agitators and serial creators "

What happens when a Polish woman, a Brit and two Venezuelans walk into a bar? A band like Belgrado is born. And you can count on any fledgeling Spanish goth to tell you about them.

Hailing from the DIY (& squatting) scene in Barcelona, they are the face of the Mediterranean post-punk currant. Ever since their bleeding-edge debut in 2010, the quartet has completed three LPs and several international tours, and are currently preparing to release their fourth album.

From Fernando Marquez’s angular guitar playing and Louis Harding’s chuntering low-end metallic notes serendipitously emerge Patrycja Proniewska’s theatrical vocals. Visually a Polish mix of Siouxsie Sioux and Debbie Harry, she sings in her mother tongue, her lyrics buoyed by the abstruse yet bittersweet deconstruction of reality.

While operating the drum machine & synthesizer, Jonathan Sirit is also behind the band’s striking aesthetics. They’re not just music agitators, but serial creators too. Known for his Dada & Bauhaus school-infused style (which he also brought to the table when crafting Molchat Doma’s logo), Sirit works along with his band mates on their visual identity, putting together a spectacle highly reminiscent of Fritz Lang’s films and avant-garde constructivist art that make the music whole.

Belgrado sounds like the future and past combined, as if they were meant to create otherworldly, trance-like outsider anthems. Showcasing a seamless blend of the atemporal and the arthouse mystique, they provide the audience with iron-clad proof of their artistic intent and musical integrity. 

Put your headphones on, close your eyes and allow the rivets of disturbed, industrialized punk to swallow you up.