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FAKLEENEX_ Hedi's Head (1978)
Kleenex were a late-1970s all-female Swiss art-punk group from Zürich who brought a playful, jagged, and wildly inventive energy to the emerging post-punk landscape. They mixed sharp, minimal guitar lines, rubbery bass, and bursts of noise with vocals that swung between yelps, chants, and off-kilter melodies—more like a punk-dada performance than a conventional rock approach. Their aesthetic leaned heavily into DIY experimentation: raw, immediate, instinctive, and free from traditional musical rules. They became a standout in the European underground for their humor, originality, and refusal to conform to punk’s tougher, more confrontational image. Their music resonated with audiences who later saw them as a blueprint for boundary-pushing, feminist creativity. Under the Kleenex name and later as Liliput, they carved out a distinct identity that helped define the more imaginative, non-hierarchical edge of early post-punk.
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