POINT MORT: Le level de non-retour
(Virtually Well-known)
Vinyl | CD | and Digital
Obtainable 25 April at Bandcamp
POINT MORT’s new album is bursting with such creativity and musical ambition, that even in case you are not a follower of metallic music, as soon as heard you’ll embrace this album.
Le level de non-retour is the second album providing by Paris primarily based POINT MORT. The band provide an intriguing palette of musical types and influences, that takes their core metallic music underpinning, into thrilling and new areas of musical risk.
The band consists of: Olivier Millot, guitar; Sam Pillay, vocals; Damien Hubert, bass; Simon Belot, drums; and Aurélien Sauzereau, guitar. They’ve developed their sound into one thing fairly particular, that’s expansive and pushed, and brave in the best way it absolutely embraces musical contrasts. Sam Pillay anchors the sound with artistic and evocative lyrics, and a wide-ranging vocal fashion, that may embody metallic screams alongside folks tinged melodic vocals, and rap rhythms. The hanging album art work can be by Sam Pillay.
After a brief industrial fashion temper setting opening observe, the second observe in on the album, the prolonged An Ungrateful Wreck of Our Ghost Our bodies, is an ideal illustration of the inventive attain and ambition of the band. Over its ten minutes plus size, Olivier Millot and Aurélien Sauzereau’s black metallic guitar figures have a shattering energy, completely matched by Sam Pillay’s alternating screamed and hovering clear vocals. The breakdowns led by Damien Hubert and Simon Belot’s crunching bass and drum work is precision personified. What, as well as, marks out the originality of this piece are the mid and ending sections. The mid-section takes down the tempo, to an electro pulse with chiming guitars, over which Sam Pillay overlays an expressive vocal stuffed with melody and folks primarily based tones. The band then launch right into a wall of blast beats and heaviness. The impact is electrifying. The ultimate part shifts the music into anthemic territory, the place Sam Pillay’s vocal and the guitars mix seamlessly permitting the music to take off and ascend, earlier than reintroducing the black metallic riffs and screamed vocals.
The extremely visible lyrics have a high quality of Patti Smith’s writing, as illustrated on this extract:
“I plunge the place I wanna go
I seek for liberty, in each final signal dropped
Chaotic shock in my mania
I simply embrace the earth, the sky and all its main roads
I fill holes in my senses, left sole
Chaotic shock in my mania
Alone”
This observe has the standard of a jazz or operatic musical suite, and is an distinctive piece of music, that could be a gorgeous calling card from a band on solely its second album.
The Bent Neck Woman, begins with a sequence that conjures an image up of what Sandy Denny period folks icons Fairport Conference may need gave the impression of if put in a metallic context. Its that good. The counterpoint concord vocals are merely beautiful. The dynamic shift of substances right into a thrash metallic like depth full with pounding guitar and bass riffs is extraordinary. By way of this wall of sound, the vocals swing again and ahead, from intense screamed phrases to scrub elegiac vocals, and hip hop influenced sequences. It’s an electrifying combine. The complicated musical adjustments of temper and tempo are supported fantastically by Simon Belot’s drumming, which is constantly creative.
Skinned Tooth is a melee of anarchic punk sounds and additional underlines the musical attain of the band. You’ll be able to learn Louder Than Struggle’s evaluation of the band’s video for Skinned Tooth right here. Le level de non-retour, the title observe and first preview observe launched from the album, is a good mixture of metallic, pop and hip hop. Sam Pillay’s infectious syncopated rap and pop concord vocals, counter the surges of thundering metallic, in what’s a really potent mixture of sounds.
The penultimate observe lecur, has a technical loss of life metallic ferocity and precision, the place the push of charged guitars and ferocious vocals is matched by the speedy rhythmic adjustments encompassing breakdowns and blast beat pushed passages. The softer clear vocal led sections add a gripping polarity to the music. Der closes out the album in an nearly doom metallic style with pulsating riffs and rhythms reverberating out of the audio system. Sam Pillay’s vocals are by no means overwhelmed, and soar excessive of the whirlwind of sound. The much less frenetic components of the observe containing some gorgeous multitracked vocal progressions.
In abstract, that is an album of boundless creativity and musical ambition, that even in case you are not a follower of metallic music, will draw you in and demand repeated listens. It was additionally recorded stay within the studio, mirrored within the power and keenness that leaps out from the recording. We will solely hope that the band will play the UK someday quickly, as this album is certain to sound unbelievable performed stay in a live performance venue.
Right here is the official video for Le level de non-retour directed by Jessica Salitra and Damien Hubert:
You’ll find extra about POINT MORT right here:
Phrases by Gareth Allen. You’ll find Gareth’s creator profile right here
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