Following international acclaim for their most recent album “After Destruction”, Guadalajara, Mexico’s art-rock juggernaut Descartes A Kant bring their unique live show to Europe next week and play their first ever UK shows in Folkestone and London. Equal parts Punk, Metal, Pop, Shoegaze and Cabaret, the critically-acclaimed underground group have made a real name for themselves as an otherworldly, unpredictable theatrical live act. So much so that even the Wall Street Journal chimed to say that “trying to describe their music is to do it a disservice. It’s loud, racy, incredibly imaginative, sophisticated, funny and wild; it’s as if the Yeah Yeah Yeahs fronted Albert Ayler with Frank Zappa conducting”. They’re considered one of the leading lights in the vibrant, ever-evolving Mexican experimental underground and are now poised to gain greater international acceptance. Lampooning contemporary emotional consumerism, the band integrates an automaton character into their lineup: The DAK, an innovative machine designed to repair emotional damage, which appears through interludes both on the album and in the live act. 

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