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 suitable bins, with its pounding drums and searing guitar wailing via the new and sticky distortion. As singer/guitarist Nico has acknowledged, “publish grunge someplace between RL Burnside, Unsane and George Michael.” We’ll take that. However what transpires appears extra a paused rumination, one via which the band take their time to relish the dense fuzz that they envelop themselves in.
After three albums as a trio, now paired all the way 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.
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 may very well be the sounds of a summer season cyclone, filtered via the wind and rain – chaotic, cathartic, and managed. Whether or not their current relocation to Lorraine has an influence on their outlook stays to be seen, however for now that is actually an awesome new discover.
Porcelain by Pamplemousse is on the market on Bandcamp.
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Warfare archive right here.
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