With PANIC, the Rennes-based BOPS make an electric and instinctive return to the indie scene. Recorded in five days at the legendary La Frette studio with Samy Osta (La Femme, Feu! Chatterton), their third album captures urgency as a method. The band favors spontaneity over perfection, then adds arrangements and vocals to complete this record that is both raw and dense. Between tight songwriting and live recording, PANIC stands out as a tense snapshot of our times. Ten tracks for as many lucid blasts: wage labor in crisis, the rise of fascism, trapped ecology… the band confronts contemporary anxieties with a blend of analog sound and rock energy. Songs like Seagulls, On a Sofa or A Riot move between deconstructed folk (Kevin Morby), electronic textures (Metronomy) and cathartic choruses with Anglo-Saxon influences (Talking Heads). BOPS also embraces the intimate with tracks like Barbass or Only You, between grief, lost love and Breton memory — right up to a poem by Angela Duval set to music. Formed by three brothers — Louis, Oscar and Germain Bop — and joined by Tom Beaudouin, BOPS has been carving out a singular path since 2017, between DIY garage and orchestrated pop (Sound of Parade, 2022). With PANIC, they deliver their most direct album to date. More than a manifesto: a raw snapshot of a world under tension.