CINQ (vinyle)

Description

For ten years, five albums and many concerts, CHROMB! has been making CHROMB! music. And CHROMB! is music. The band is driven by four minds, propelled by an overflowing imagination, electrically fueled, and impervious to classification. Sometimes jazz could be its mother, as CHROMB! resembles it in photos, sometimes it could be rock, as it's true that it's not entirely false. What defines CHROMB! is above all elasticity, a devotion to both melody and noise, and also a certain obstinacy to continue inventing unpredictable pieces of music.CHROMB!'s new album is called CINQ because it's a very pretty name. As often with CHROMB!, it is constructed as a seemingly incoherent succession of contrasting atmospheres: dance floors are charged with absurdity, one encounters melodies too pretty to be true, head voices and screams, sometimes it's a song, sometimes not, but it is always generous and sincere.What characterizes this album is perhaps its way of getting straight to the point, of trying to lose the listener on straight lines.One might think of John Carpenter, DAF, the Beach Boys, Errorsmith or John Zorn, but in the end, it's CHROMB! that one is listening to.