Ain't that mayhem

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If their recent collaborations with Virginie Despentes and Béatrice Dalle have given the Lyon-based musicians the spotlight they deserved, this is only the latest chapter in a story that began young and over 25 years ago with Eric Aldéa, already accompanied by drummer Franck Laurino. Within Deity Guns (89-93) then Bästard (93-98) and in a handful of albums (including productions signed by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth or Andy Briant of Tortoise), they were simply the pioneers of post-rock in France.It will take more than one listen for this new album to reveal the multiple springs that drive the strange machine it seems to be, deploying its meanders without any pre-established order, opening trapdoors when the path seems clear, revealing exits at the bottom of dead ends. And yet. And yet it seems that ZËRO is signing here his most accessible record. As complex as it may be, this "Ain't That Mayhem?" ultimately opens so many entry points to different musical cultures that it gives itself up from the first listen. Like the traveler paralyzed at the thought of pushing open the door of a messy and potentially haunted old manor to find shelter, we don't know what we will find behind all this. But we enter.THE PIONEERS OF POST-ROCK IN FRANCE