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PIERRE & BASTIEN Que du Bonheur LP
01 Race
02 Grosse Caisse
03 Plus que les Chiens
04 Graisse de Phoque
05 Sentiments
06 Handicapé
07 Destinée
08 Femme.
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Friday Five: May 17 2015
Album info
Still Single:
RECOMMENDED
Pierre & Bastien surfaced in these pages some four years back with a striking, borderline-industrial single called “No Sex.” The two studio albums (there’s also a live one on the Killedbyanaxe label) that captured the band in more recent times finds an approach crested, then solidified, to that it took two albums for the picture to come into enough focus to find its strengths. Whether they were backed by a drum machine, or human percussionist Fred Trux, guitarists Pierre (presumably Baptiste Nollet) and Bastien (guessing Paul Jimenes?) continue with a single vision: downpick in unison, with a viselike grip on the necks. Songs maintain roughly the same tempos while these guys bash away, mirroring one another’s French vocals, and bashing out chord counts like they’re on an assembly line thrown into overdrive. Some will likely get bored with this approach, but others will see purpose in the purity, even when one of them breaks off for the occasional lead. The aforementioned crest is symbolized by the self-titled effort from last year, a mission statement of tunnel-visioned efficiency; dry, wordy, steady and sharp. Que De Bonheur, on recently reactivated label Polly Maggoo, makes minor improvements for which the trio is all the better: a noticeably quicker pace, a more forgiving mix which positions the drums in a more prominent space and adds some low-end to their bass-less lineup, concepts which move them out of the carport and into a restless median between the rain-gray Wipers and the mucousy red and green humors of Hot Snakes, and in moments to their motherland forefathers, Les Thugs. Lyrics here are not my strong suit to translate, though at the end of Bonheur’s closer “Femme,” they switch to English to pick up a gender-bent twist on a familiar Neil Diamond couplet, curious enough to have me wondering exactly what these songs are about anyway. The first album is just fine but the new one, like few new albums do, forecasts the obsolescence of its predecessor. Look, there is so much bullshit in music these days that to find something this single-minded and pure is like a cold shower, and to hear them make the minor improvements that could bring about contendership in this three-legged race called rock music is exciting enough to warrant the attention you were gonna give to some lesser outlier. Even if they are going out in their own direction, Pierre & Bastien give you plenty of good reasons as to why you should run with their pack.
(Doug Mosurock)
Victim Of Time:
It’s so good to hear more rip-roaring and original-sounding punk throb oozing out of France again, and the brand new Que Du Bonheur LP from Pierre & Bastien out this week at the Sonic Protest live event in Montreuil at Le Chinois will fill that empty spot in your heart (and between your ear holes) with enough thickly-accented gusto and strangulated guitar harmonies to stave off any cravings for bearnaise sauce any time soon. If you were lucky enough to hear and hold dear their debut LP from last year, it won’t be hard to convince you of their lust for Wire-wrapped rhythms and those fluid French lyrics laid artfully on top of such slashing guitars and intimidating vocal harmonies, uggh, so good! Straddling the razor’s edge of late 70s French thug punk bravado and early 80s post punk into a concise and well-produced modern classic, Que Du Bonheur strikes an icy aloofness right across the board into such impeccably well-written guitar lines, all destined to stick in your head instantly. The vocals can only really be described as excruciatingly refined, deadpan yet defiant and brilliantly brutish, you can try to stave off their allure, but why even put up the effort?
Tough and seductive, and swollen with cuts from all those barbed hooks, this new LP should solidify their legend even further, and you might even be able to get your hands on a copy state-side due to the international prestige of Jacko & Lili Zeller’s PollyMaggoo imprint, thankfully. And if you’re near Paris this week, be sure not to miss Pierre & Bastien along with No Balls and T.I.T.S. for the LP release show, as well.
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