Pamplemousse: Porcelain
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French grunge-garage noisniks Pamplemousse return with Porcelain, a fuzz-drenched alt-rock blast that envelops the senses.
On their new album, French duo Pamplemousse appear primed to unleash a driving frenzy of grunge-soaked garage-psych, battering your senses proper from the off with the visceral opener Extra Lovely Than Madonna. It ticks all the best packing containers, with its pounding drums and searing guitar wailing by way of the recent and sticky distortion. As singer/guitarist Nico has said, “publish grunge someplace between RL Burnside, Unsane and George Michael.” We’ll take that. However what transpires appears extra a paused rumination, one by way of which the band take their time to relish the dense fuzz that they envelop themselves in.
After three albums as a trio, now paired right down to a duo with Nico joined by Sarah behind the skins, they don’t have any drawback filling the expanse with a haze of scrumptious post-Sabbath, drones of fuzz that drop into sparse builds, and tense breaks. Though the tracks don’t at all times rocket alongside, there’s a rigidity, the doubled vocals including at occasions to a sense of angst on songs like Each Story Has An Finish.
Nevertheless, on tracks like The Large Audio system and Dangerous Penny, they do decide up the tempo considerably, recalling these bands on the tail finish of the 90s that harked again half a decade or so to the Pacific Northwest sound. For a band that hailed from Reunion Island, theirs could possibly be the sounds of a summer season cyclone, filtered by way of the wind and rain – chaotic, cathartic, and managed. Whether or not their latest relocation to Lorraine has an affect on their outlook stays to be seen, however for now that is definitely a fantastic new discover.
Porcelain by Pamplemousse is offered on Bandcamp.
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Struggle archive right here.
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