A MYSTERIOUS LAND OF HAPPINESS (vinyl)

Description

If you happen to run into Clément Palant and Xavier Soulabail at the Port du Légué, you’ll have no trouble imagining these two sonic pirates returning from a distant expedition, their boots still smoking from the ashes of BUCK, their former ship. Here they are, flamboyant, championing Broken Waltz, which takes us on a new journey, stormy and refined, colorful and surprising, rough and romantic. The sinister and oppressive boogie of Broken Waltz causes a cold fever, cold as the corpse of Joy Division. Today, the duo takes the detours explored by Nick Cave's Grinderman, Tom Waits' ramshackle music, The Cramps' rockabilly, or Suicide's synth-blues. One on drums and vocals, the other on bass, they use these elements, expertly mixed with solid references and clever sound manipulations, to deliver two albums back-to-back, filled with Anglo-Saxon storms that send their hair-raising winds all the way here. "A show of force overshadowed by the influence of The Cramps and Nick Cave..." --- ROCK & FOLK ---." HOARSE VOICES, CAVERNOUS AMBIANCES, RIFF DELUGES, RHYTHMIC EXPLOSIONS AND GRAVEYARD BALLADS. " --- ROCK & FOLK ---." Buck distills a raw and effective garage-blues." --- OUEST FRANCE ---." Dirty garage rock blues with the voice of a nail-eating bear. " --- Le Cri de l'Ormeau ---.