“Well I got simple taste for self destruction!”, Fragile chants at the beginning of ...About Going Home. A cry from the heart, a testament to the omnipresent melancholy on the first album from this pure product of the Angers rock scene. Fragile is a gathering of former and current members of the bands Wild Fox, L A N E, Scuffles, and Dogs For Friends. Fragile is the shared desire to fight it out and atone for their most visceral flaws against a backdrop of modern and melodic hardcore punk. Fragile has a sound that doesn't have to be ashamed of its American predecessors. Because ...About Going Home provides the quintet with an incredibly solid start! - - Fragile emerged in 2020 with the initial project of occupying the long days of lockdown, then quickly moving on to concerts once the health barriers fell. These 8 tracks are the result of these first sonic confrontations, fueled by spontaneity, energy, and a variety of influences. Listening to them invokes the ghosts of 90s/2000s punk rock and emo, with that irresistible sense of chorus and sing-alongs. But make no mistake, Fragile is part of this new generation. One that doesn't hesitate to nuance the effectiveness of its riffs and rhythms with touches inherited from shoegaze, or even new wave. Add voices ranging from raucous to clear, and you get an already strong musical identity, which, however, doesn't seem to have reached its final form yet. “‘This EP is a calling card that isn't yet totally representative of what Fragile aspires to be,’ says drummer Félix Sourice. ‘It's a melting pot of everything that went through our heads during that uncertain period!’” - - Driven by unwavering bonds of friendship, the five members of Fragile are also keen for this band to be a space of trust allowing them to express themselves as they couldn't elsewhere. In this, Baptiste Pelletier's lyrics form the common thread of this EP. The singer takes stock of a personally difficult period, in a therapeutic and cathartic writing style: “The moment the guys offered me to join Fragile coincided with my discovery of Touché Amoré. They are a band that made me understand that I could bare myself and talk about what scares me. Rightly so, the fragility of my mental health is something that resonated with each of us, and confirmed our idea to adopt our current name.” - - With ...About Going Home, Fragile invites you to feel at home and at peace with yourself. Or the metaphor of all the elements that, instead of belittling and burdening, push you to move forward and surpass yourself. A salvific debut album, to discover!
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