It took the Finistère trio Baston six years to release their debut album, Primates, which came out at the end of 2019. The band, joined by a fourth member on keyboards in 2018, casually emerged from a three-year silence with a punchy first LP, revealing a hypnotic and perfectly mastered motorik rock, unanimously praised by the specialized press upon its release. After an international tour of two dates (a bar in Brest and the Levitation festival in Angers) and three Facebook posts later, the band surprised everyone with a second album titled La Martyre, which features no less than eight new tracks, composed remotely via Google Drive during yet another lockdown, and then recorded in the garage of Simon Magadur's parents in La Roche Maurice (29). The titles of the songs exclusively reference nightclubs in northern Finistère. Far from their sunny garage pop beginnings in 2013, Baston continues to delve into a cold, hypnotic, and haunting music, where keyboards increasingly take center stage, from composition to mixing. Influenced by Cold Pumas, Drame, and Beak>, Baston's music skillfully weaves between German psychedelia, contemporary English post-punk, and new wave, easily avoiding the pitfalls of stylistic exercises to impose a unique identity. Baston manages to sound fresh in 2022, is certainly not at the forefront of music marketing, but offers here, and this is what matters most, a new sonic uppercut in an already impeccable discography.