ANTILLECTUAL are famous for punkrock, political statements and from now on also for coversongs.

The trio from the Netherlands is starting a mini-coversong-series with their first release – the Police classic „Truth Hits Everybody“.
Although the trio keeps close to the original, it has become a completely independent and powerful version. Of course, a little bit faster and a little bit harder – pure ANTILLECTUAL-style.

Taking their own slogan “stealing riffs and borrowing song titles” to the next level Antillectual recorded 4 covers of “the roots of their roots”. The band will release covers sporadically, among their original work, as episodes of their singles series. In guitarist Willem’s words:

“We wanted to experiment and record other people’s music. Most of the bands we grew up on are still around or reunited, but we didn’t feel like covering bands that are still active. It was much more interesting to go back one more generation and find early punk songs with a modern melodic vibe to them. Truth Hits Everybody was the first song that came to mind. From the first time I heard it, it felt like something that would match with our own style very well. Not surprisingly the song appeared to be in a key we use a lot ourselves.”

The video is shot in Antillectual’s hometown Nijmegen by Ruben Smulders, inspired by the music video for So Lonely, also from The Police’s debut album Outlandos d’Amour from 1978. That album was also the inspiration for the artwork of the single, created by Andy Dahlström (Satanic Surfers’ bass player). The audio is recorded by the band’s sound tech, Emiel Thoonen. Mixing and hammond are done by Menno Bakker who also recorded Antillectual’s debut album Silencing Civilization and many legendary Dutch punk bands such as Undeclinable Ambuscade, NRA and Seein’ Red. Carl Saff (Iron Chic, Touché Amore, Small Brown Bike) did the mastering of the track.

Truth Hits Everybody Tour 2019
06.04.2019  IT – Milano – No Reason Fest
12.04.2019  DE – Siegen – VEB
13.04.2019  DE – Freiburg – Amplifest
01.05.2019  DE – Frankfurt – Ponyhof
02.05.2019  DE – Töging am Inn – Silo 1
03.05.2019  AT –  Wels – SBÄM Fest
04.05.2019  CH – Zürich – Obenuse Fest
11.05.2019  DE – Hamburg – Hafen Rock
25.05.2019  DE  – Hannover – Still <3 Freiräume Fest
01.06.2019  DE – Wesel – Eselrock
07.07.2019  NL – Utrecht – Revivalfest
13.07.2019  DE – Hormersdorf – KNRD Fest
26.07.2019  DE – Hamburg – Markthalle (w/ Propagandhi)
02.08.2019  BE – Duffel – Brakrock
20.09.2019  DE – Göttingen – einsB
28.12.2019  NL – Nijmegen – Friends First Fest

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