Besides being the singer in The Ex, we've known Arnold de Boer for thirty years as the frontman of Zea, the band's only permanent member. On the new album, "In lichem fol beloften" (Frisian for "a body full of promises"), released as a beautiful booklet, Zea is a quartet with cello and clarinet as prominent instruments.
The compositions are new but feel like old folk traditionals. The meandering plucked guitar that competes with drum rolls in the title track, or the melancholic combination of cello and clarinet in "De tút in de beton wolken" (The Tuck in the Concrete Clouds), sound as archaic as they are moving.
It's also beautiful how Zea is accompanied in several songs by the resounding Drumband Hallelujah Makkum, in which De Boer started as a young boy and his 81-year-old father, Freddie, still plays. But even when it remains smaller and De Boer recites lines of poetry by M. Vasalis in "De Dea," the expressive power of this utterly authentic music is immense. {source: Volkskrant, G. Kamer”}

Forty years after their debut album, "WIL MET U NEUKEN," Frisian-language punk legends It Dockumer Lokaeltsje are making a radical return to the vibe of their early days. They threw together their first ten songs in a single afternoon—on "LOOP OF SLOOP," their brand-new LP-CD, Fritz, Sytse, and Peter have taken the step of first recording an album and then turning it into ten songs! These songs are more chaotic than ever in It Dockumer Lokaeltsje. Shellac, DNA, Teenage Jesus, and The Ex—they all pop up briefly, but you blink and they're gone again. Want se kinne der net oer! (They can't handle it!).

The Dockumer Lokaeltsje is bursting with life on LOOP OF SLOOP, yet simultaneously on the verge of collapse. Because the band has more past than future in 2026, they've chosen to live posthumously from now on. While TRUMP YN MAKKUM was their last album in 2023, LOOP OF SLOOP is their first posthumous album. Come experience it live and ride one last time into the abyss with these noisy Frisians.