one year after catching a grizzly bear, lesson one (2005, zealrecords) tomàn is back with their second full length perhaps we should have smoked the salmon first.

You can expect minutes of instrumental trips à la mogwai, timid popsongs as patented by pinback, melancholic postrock like the album leaf. their music however sounds warmer and more melancholic than their idols. The first keywords that come into the band's mind when thinking of perhaps we should have smoked the salmon first, well uhr, think of repetition, sparse electronics, choirs, melancholy, warm guitars, or flemish blokes having fun?

The guys played the Belgian and Dutch indie clubs and some nice festivals as well (dour, motel mozaique…) supporting bands like karate, death cab for cutie, the album leaf, logh, b fleischmann, the new year, 65daysofstatic, the berg sans nipple…