Cellar

CELLAR are a new Cologne-based band making groovy, sometimes heavy guitar music somewhere between shoegaze shimmer and post-punk grit. Formed by three sound engineers and a lighting engineer who became a band while working on everyone else’s shows, CELLAR bring a meticulous ear to the chaos.

Their influences—DIIV, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Fontaines D.C., Joy Division—show up more as spirit than template: waves of noise, angular basslines, and lyrics steeped in a love of English literature and poetry.

CELLAR is Kerim (Yottagon) on drums, Robin on bass, Cassian (Paul & The Microcosm) on keys, and Antony (ex–Fear of Men, Family Friends, Headache) on guitar and vocals. Antony arrived from London, met the others somewhere between soundcheck and last orders, and the rest followed naturally.