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 Stunning Than Madonna. It ticks all the proper bins, with its pounding drums and searing guitar wailing by the new and sticky distortion. As singer/guitarist Nico has acknowledged, “put up grunge someplace between RL Burnside, Unsane and George Michael.” We’ll take that. However what transpires appears extra a paused rumination, one by 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 all the time rocket alongside, there’s a pressure, the doubled vocals including at occasions to a sense of angst on songs like Each Story Has An Finish.
Nonetheless, on tracks like The Massive Audio system and Unhealthy 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 time cyclone, filtered by 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 actually a fantastic new discover.
Porcelain by Pamplemousse is accessible on Bandcamp.
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Struggle archive right here.
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