Pink Colour Surgery

Description

Since their first album, "Silence Slowly And Madly Shines" (Alter K), released in 2017, the members of The Psychotic Monks have never stopped impressing us with their maturity and their determination to offer a singular stage and recorded presence. Their secret: a constant questioning that runs through everything they do and led the band to release ‘Private Meaning First’ (Vicious Circle / FatCat Records) in 2019, a fiery second album even redefining the alphabet of their music in two chapters and a fifteen-minute epilogue. It should also be remembered that there is no leader within the band; everyone writes, sings and composes in unison. This gives rise to questioning not only of their practice, but also of their personal positioning and, of course, of their relationship with the audience. The pandemic arrived, a period that allowed for a great deal of perspective. The new tracks were then composed through long improvs in the studio, in total connection with the unconscious, and reach us like an act of resistance to the surrounding violence. Their 3rd album, "Pink Colour Surgery" (Vicious Circle/FatCat Records), produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band, was therefore born from these perpetual questions. Here, one should not necessarily expect the "song" format, but rather a sonic chaos in which the band has tamed the wild flights to make of it an uncompromising setting, where each idea has found its own space of freedom. The desire to surprise is also one of the band’s strengths, and their wish to stir curiosity is very much present. Living their music is then an intimate, sensory experience, whose impact is still felt long afterward. Disconcerting at first, this new opus carries out in the dark a surgery of ethics that is enriched with pink for a stunning metamorphosis. Among its zones of turbulence and its lulls, it is a journey into the unknown that is offered to us, and if the instrumentation is disfigured, it is to bring forth the essential heart of this raw operation. Though radical, this work is truly accessible to anyone who dives into it deeply. One is constantly hypnotized, shaken, because its soul dangerously flirts with a furious and oppressive trance. "Pink Colour Surgery" is therefore indeed a miraculous album, if not a miraculously saved one, because it has come back from far away. Here we move forward blindly with audacity, toward a zone of discomfort that will gradually spread along a tortuous path, even embracing a sickly electro before reaching the summit of introspection. Our feelings are then tossed about just like our progress, track after track, moving from total chaos to the gentlest embrace, because there is something carnal here, a mirror held up to a underlying violence that the band has taken care to dissect, both in its concerts and in the stance of this record, because this violence that does not say its name, perhaps more insidious and able to gnaw at us slyly, like mold. This record is therefore also a way of freeing speech through its very structure, which takes us fully into an initiatory trip full of hidden corners, provided one agrees to throw oneself into it completely. How addictive the journey then becomes, letting itself slide from one track to the next, sometimes jolted, sometimes ignited by an unexpected epiphany, because its light radiates through us. "Pink Colour Surgery" is like the hidden room of a house we had never entered, and the possibility of feeling at home there is not ruled out.