In March 2023, Belgian noise garage-punk band marcel celebrated chaos, upheaval, and the incoherent, bestial party of life. However, the band has yet to produce the famous "album of maturity," instead stubbornly building a bridge between the sublime and the ridiculous. This formula seems to have worked, as their debut album traveled to specialized magazines in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Italy, and reached the seasoned ears of indie guru Steve Lamacq (BBC). ô fornaiz, their second album, this time entirely produced and mixed by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls,...), was recorded in 10 days in Liège. marcel delves into a problem that has obsessed early homo sapiens without puffer jackets, pre-Socratic philosophers, medieval alchemists, and masculinist barbecue enthusiasts alike: fire. Staged in its most abstract and concrete, psychological and poetic form, fire spreads through each of the 11 songs on ô fornaiz. The result is music that can broadly be categorized as bastard garage-noise-punk, where the punk base is enriched with forms and sounds from classical music, jungle, dub, or psychedelic. The influences are broad, often old, hazy, and ardent, like the hearth on which marcel has placed its pot these past two years: The Ex, Nina Hagen, This Heat, Catherine Ringer, Jacques Dutronc, Blacklisters, Arno, Jesus Lizard, Can, Nico, Nino Ferrer, Kim Gordon, Amon Tobin, Swans, Béla Bartók, Kurt Weill, Yolande Moreau, Happy Mondays, and even the last Talk Talk albums.
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