Back in 2024, which feels like a lifetime ago for me, Real Farmer, a scrappy post-punk group from Groningen, Netherlands, released one of my favourite heavy music releases I’ve heard in a while. I’ll still throw on the buzzing and volatile Compare What’s There album when I feel a need for mayhem—that insatiable thirst to beat the concrete into submission. They’ve followed it up with a small EP, RF II, and a few newer singles, including this new one, “Heart Out.”
This newer song is straight to point punk anthem—an impassioned plea for giving up and thriving in resistance, chained to love. As trilling, feedbacky guitar rings, a steady drum beat, and the grooving bassline (the true hero of this track in my opinion), vocalist Jeroen Klootsema (with a bleeding or ketchup-ridden nose, you know this is art) absolutely loses his shit in Margate’s greasy spoon diner, Dalby cafe—the audience? The cameraman, Roger Sargent (The Libertines, Vona Vella, Baxter fuckin’ Dury), and two dudes eating their breakfast.
More importantly, Real Farmer has a new record coming out on Strap Originals in May called Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right. Is this the follow-up I’ve been waiting for? Only time will tell.
