A Belgian noise-rock tornado with a formidable live reputation, IT IT ANITA has entered a whole new era with Mouche. The quartet became a power trio, putting efficiency back at the heart of their art, and delivering an album of uninhibited freedom.
As Michaël Goffard (vocals/guitar) points out, "It's not that we don't give a shit, it's that we're going for it! This fourth album takes us down uncharted paths. There's the verse/chorus structure, the light versus the harsh, the Beastie Boys-style phrasing, but also the storytelling. Here, the trio from Liège sings about the guilt of the aftermath of drunken nights out, the yes men who stop at nothing, those crypto-millionaire wankers, or the fact of still being up and ready to make noise after 10 years of activity. And it's all part and parcel of the band's desire to make this the album with the strongest connection to its audience, breaking its own codes to the very end!
UNSCHOOLING :
"It's not the subject of the painting or the painter's technique that makes the puzzle difficult, but the subtlety of the cut" said Georges Perec. And so it is with Unschooling's debut LP, New World Artifacts, 11 tracks of which prove that guitar pop can be one hell of a game of patience. Deranged arpeggios, chord progressions in the form of cerebral glitches, selfishly decapitated harmonies over motorway tempos: this album bears a sickly resemblance to the way it was conceived. Neurotic assemblages, joyful sabotage of authorised forms, exquisite cadavers under the influence, bricolage, scraps, chaos, the accepted incorporation of accident as a production tool. This artefact is the armed response of the pleasure of randomness to the mechanised normativity of the New World.
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