RELAX

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FRUSTRATION --- REISSUE OF THE FIRST ALBUM RELAX --- THE ALBUM THAT BECAME A CLASSIC OF FRENCH POST-PUNK --- This first album RELAX, which has now become a classic, has definitively anchored the band in the French music scene. From the electro-pop of We have some opening the album, to the terrifying Faster closing it, the frustrated ones played with musical boundaries to offer a dense and varied album that is now a landmark in French-made post-punk. One only needed to think WARSAW meets WIRE meets DEVO to get a fairly precise idea of their universe and references. They added a restrained violence and a madness that was lacking in the impostors of the time who claimed to be influenced by these bands, a true singer who sang, feverish drums, degenerate synths that gave you a headache, and a guitar as incisive as a knife blade. Frustration already asserted itself as the antithesis of those harmless and pretentious cold rock bands.