OMINOUS SIGNS (vinyl)

Description

“Having clearly understood that it is by building a bridge between a digested glorious past and a radiant future that one creates a present, Strasbourg songwriter Théo Cloux writes under the name T/O a new page in hypnotic music. Drawing without any complexes from lo-fi pop, orchestral rock, kosmische musik or even garage, his music is a good kick in the terrifying conformism of today’s retromania. Embracing his eccentricity and borderline impulses, in the manner of the great freaks of music (from Flaming Lips to Sun Ra, via Connan Mockasin or Gary Wilson), T/O takes the term prog back to where it should never have been taken away from: the notion of progress. Vertiginous, tense and above all invigorating.” Adrien Durand “This album seems to reset rock’s clocks. Listening to it, you’d think you were hearing Parquet Courts in the middle of a trip, riding a Tame Impala wave from the good old days and crossing paths with MGMT around a Buddhist temple whose monks would be Flaming Lips.” Sourdoreille