Music
Dressed Like Boys
The emancipation of a troublemaker who would rather have been a piano philosopher
With the necessary indie and punk bands (e.g. DIRK.) on his résumé, Jelle Denturck, 37, is anything but a newcomer. Yet his project Dressed Like Boys has the freshness of a rebirth and the urgency of a coming-out. He has traded noise for unconditional honesty, timeless piano balladry à la Elton John and Sufjan Stevens, and the necessary thick pills. Books, we mean. In his work, you can recognize Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, or the turbulent chronicles of the Stonewall riots. You can also close your eyes and simply let the Ghent native play his compelling work. You don't have to be an armchair philosopher to be moved by it.
