Lointain, Sort Of
By sixth track The
Winter Haze we are thoroughly riff-hooked, with every song pretty much
panning out to wall-to-wall psychedelic-blues noise, fuzzed as one would expect
from the band’s name, but also elasticated throughout with wah-wah.
Tipped into this mode from the off, closer Shake Your Mind is riff-rife too, more a
pounding forward shove than a classic repeating pattern, and as on all tracks,
vocalist Audric Faucheux is his own forward drive of energy in a constant
near-yell, occasionally joined by MS20 electronics from the band’s drummer.
It is genuinely no criticism to state there are few nuances
here. Laura Luiz is a stand-out on guitar, addicted as I am to the two generic
rock effects already stated, and Thomas Hobeck on bass and Clément
Gaudry-Santiago on drums bring up the rocket on pulsing thrusters of rhythm.
A French quartet from Toulouse playing the universal
language of far-out.
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