Gale:
‘We have never duplicated the sound of that first record. It’s an iconic album. We’ve since made records that have been just as good, but that one captured some sort of zeitgeist. On the surface it was melancholy, but underneath it was hopeful. That’s why we called it The Optimist.’
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In real life, Stefan Meeuws is an online editor. This means he writes lots of texts for lots of companies and people and talks to a lot of interesting people. He used to work for various computer magazines. He studied Dutch Language & Culture at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He likes music, internet, media, social and cultural things. As if that's not enough he enjoys Turin Brakes music most of all and making this very website.
