Lewsberg from Rotterdam is a four-piece rock group named after writer and fellow Rotterdam citizen Robert Loesberg, famous for his novel Enige Defecten from 1974 (never translated). That is the greatest source of inspiration for the band: the counterculture and big-city cynicism of the 60s and 70s. Lewsberg makes rudimentary and repetitive rock songs, full of a tough, nonchalant intensity. The English lyrics, brought with a heavy Rotterdam accent, show a tendency towards existentialism and black humour.