…AND DISASTERS (vinyl)

Description

If you come across Clément Palant and Xavier Soulabail on the port of Légué, you will have no trouble imagining these two sonic pirates returning from a distant expedition, their boots still smoking from the ashes of BUCK, their former ship. Here they are, flamboyant, defending Broken Waltz, which takes us on a new journey, stormy and refined, colorful and surprising, rough and romantic. The ominous and oppressive boogie of Broken Waltz brings on a cold fever, cold as the remains of Joy Division. The duo now borrows the side roads trodden by Nick Cave’s Grinderman, Tom Waits’ ramshackle world, the rockaboogie of The Cramps or the synth-blues of Suicide. - - One on drums and vocals, the other on bass, they use these elements, blended with taste and solid references, for clever sonic dealings, to offer us two albums back to back, filled with Anglo-Saxon storms whose sweeping winds reach us here. Saxophone, organ, a female voice sometimes join this duo, deliberately claimed to be anti-guitar, a way of imposing a formidable signature on these thunderous creations from a workshop of sparkling craftsmen. The lyrics and the scraped vocals resonate under the light of an unsettling moon in this mysterious land of joys... And disasters. A diptych, not a double album, a journey in two parts through a boundless sonic universe. A journey filled with unexpected sonic and visual encounters, that is the promise of this mysterious land of joys and disasters.