Faraway Land

Description

JC Satan is the meeting of Arthur (Polar Strong, The Meatards, Crane Angels, etc.), a gifted child taking the filthy Bordeaux basements for a playground, and Paula from Turin, composer, illustrator, jack-of-all-trades, adopted and cherished by the national garage scene. Already noticed with their first LP Sick Of Love (2010), followed by various collaborations with Le Pecheur, Born Bad Records, etc., they struck again in 2011 with the excellent Hell Death Samba (Slovenly Records (US)), which was accompanied by major critical and public success. For their 3rd opus, Faraway Land, the band teams up with the young and talented Parisian label Teenage Menopause (Catholic Spray, le Prince Harry). Here we naturally find what makes them stand out: a sonic universe of unsettling beauty, between rough garage and deviant noisy-pop. As usual, the band refuses to sink into repetition, steps out of its comfort zone, blurs the lines, and heads off to eye the territory of Pixies or even Queen of the Stone Age to give birth to eleven epic gems. Once again, with Faraway Land, JC Satan delivers a bold and disorienting album, uninhibited music that, like Thee Oh Sees and Black Lips, blows up the conventions of garage music.