The music of The Exist can be described best as melodic guitar pop/rock in a mixture of styles of (then) contemporary bands like: The Chills, The Dream Syndicate and The Feelies. But still it always turned out to be one of the hardest things to describe our music and we have heard many comments from people who thought we resembled anything from Curved Air to the Cure.

We were also told that we were a sixties band very often, especially after Zjenja and I started to double in The Kliek. This was even the remark we got when we participated in the "Grote Prijs van Nederland" contest. Back then I thought, as I still think nowadays, that was a really short-sighted remark and goes to show that these people apparently never listened to real sixties music. The main thing our music had in common with sixties music was the sense for melody and songs with a clear "head" and "tail". For more information please refer to biography in the "Navigation" section to the right.