Svemirko play Zappa Baza in Belgrade on November 26 from 8pm, and they are bringing new material. The Croatian band from Zagreb, one of the more interesting names on the regional alternative scene, is coming back to the Serbian capital.

Behind Svemirko stands Marko Vuković, born in Đakovo, a musician and producer who released under several pseudonyms before the current five-piece took shape - Kimekai and Nikonar being the best known. The band's name is borrowed from a contestant of the same name on the quiz show "The Weakest Link", which is an accurate enough description of how seriously they take their own self-presentation.

The discography is arranged as a trilogy: "Vanilija" in 2017, "Tunguzija" in 2018 and "Skalamerija" in 2020. The first album is a set of nine pop songs in which the synth-pop that was once native to this part of the world gets reassembled with present-day production, rather than quoted as nostalgia. Balkanrock listed the band among the best regional releases, and genre critics file them somewhere between synth-pop, hypnagogic pop and jangle pop - which in practice means they fit none of the three completely.

The first song, "Zbogom proleteri", came out in July 2015, so the band has been on stage for more than a decade. That fact explains why the Belgrade crowd following them is not only in its twenties. The new material announced for this tour would be a fourth album, the first since the trilogy closed.

Tickets through tickets.rs start at 2,000 dinars, roughly 1,050 denars. Zappa Baza, a Thursday night, and a band whose music works both for dancing and for headphones on a bus.