{"product_id":"bracco_dromonia-vinyl_2022_lad","title":"DROMONIA (vinyl)","description":"What is a record for? To revive emotion. To remember the scent of a concert. To convince someone to go with us. To help musicians ruin their health for ours. But above all, when a record complements a concert: to be able to extrapolate. With the memory of the counter-shot of each frame. A record contains all of that; you just have to unfold it. 'Dromonia,' their second album after 'Grave,' is one of those small papers folded insistently until they become hard as wood, the ones on which important things are written. The great deaths, the small confessions, the big mistakes. On stage, Bracco is Loren, busy with drumsticks in hand, before an assortment of machines and synths. And it's Baptiste, guitar around his neck, singing with the rare conviction of those who put the microphone in their mouths so the words come out better. Having wrecked one's retinas on Cramps VHS tapes must help. His garage background (Los VV's) informs his raw and precise guitar playing. Baptiste manages the verticality, Loren the space and horizontals: it builds solidly even if it's schlag technique, drills, and pallet wood; you can feel they're aiming high. Bracco has smooth, damp skin; labels don't stick well, no matter what you try. That doesn't stop them from letting their music be visited by discreet ghosts from the dark wave stepfamily. They like Psychic TV, DAF, Suicide, and Throbbing Gristle, and it shows. Music veterans will note that Bracco, a good child of its terrible era, has that hot-cold synthetic sound of pivotal periods where everything is a death trap (the day we heard a guitar intruding into techno, the moment punks learned a fourth chord, the night Happy Mondays decided to entrust Bez with maracas: that path is paved with courageous records). \"Sunshine\" and \"Secretly Dancing\" are good examples of this stateless crossover where the treatment of the guitar-drum duo is particularly successful. The clinical and efficient mix by producer Marc Portheau encourages playing the record louder than the current shitty atmosphere. Lauriane, a defector from shoegazers Bryan's Magic Tears, joined them for a vocal featuring. \"Cobra Music,\" the first single, which we had already heard live, is the prototype of those marathon tracks built to be played by stretching them to exhaustion; we hope you'll be there for the finish. — Halory Goerger —","brand":"Bracco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310254735704,"sku":null,"price":23957623.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381576535_f7830a33-0e1a-468b-a9dc-feff800076f2.jpg?v=1760318385","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/bracco_dromonia-vinyl_2022_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}