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| | Artist : Electronicat | |
| | Album : Chez Toi | |
| | Label : Disko B Source : CD | |
| | Cat. No. : DB145CD Size : 73.13 MB | |
| ª Genre : Electronic StrDate: 2007-04-00 ª |
ª _ Quality : 189kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2007-04-03 _ ª
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| | Rock meets noise, electronics, drone and industrial music and | |
| | creates "Chez Toi", Fred Bigot aka Electronicat's third album on | |
| | Munich's Disko B label and seventh long player in total. | |
| | | |
| | This album transcends all the previous flirtations with electro | |
| | and presents Bigot's mature vision of pop, rock and noise, mixed | |
| | with a healthy dose of risk-taker's attitude. Here we find him | |
| | returning to his native roots, the majority of songs with French | |
| | vocals and a spontaneous, raw production technique that relates | |
| | to his live shows, energetic and unpredictable. | |
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| | | |
| | The first track, "Duvent", breathes and exhales with laborious | |
| | and exhilarating tension, like massive pistons gearing up an | |
| | enormous machine, before the signature Electronicat bass kicks in | |
| | combined with a dark and lunging vocal creating what at first | |
| | seems like an off-kilter rhythm driving its incessant mantra into | |
| | our subconscious. | |
| | | |
| | By the time "Chez Toi" starts we are already aware of Bigot's | |
| | desire to enwrap us in his swaying mix of powerful and fragile | |
| | emotions. Chez Toi is the ultimate indie pop song, influenced by | |
| | the French "YΘyΘ" scene such as Ronnie Bird - a catchy beat, riff | |
| | and chorus but too rough for FM, too unhinged for the teen disco. | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | "Seveneves" exhibits Bigot's ongoing fascination with palindromes | |
| | and loops, not only in its title but also throughout the track. A | |
| | washed-out, haunting guitar sound accompanies an industrious | |
| | rhythm over which Masumi Kobayashi repeatedly counts from 1 to 7 | |
| | in two different types of Japanese whilst we are sent off to | |
| | charter a rhythmic territory that, though repetitive in form, | |
| | constantly buckles and changes due to its uneven time signature. | |
| | | |
| | After the reeling and exotic Seveneves comes "Nu Day", almost two | |
| | songs in one, the first half with Bigot singing and second half | |
| | turning into a hybrid hip-hop / rock song with Miss le Bomb and | |
| | G.Rizo at the helm. We are told some mysterious tale of dreams, | |
| | animals, loneliness and mountains where "milk (comes) from trees | |
| | and wine from rocks". Switch back to the humorous tendencies | |
| | displayed in all previous Electronicat records and you might be | |
| | able to fathom that. | |
| | | |
| | We are plunged back into pop and rock again with "Je pleure, j'ai | |
| | peur" which explores the strategies Bigot has employed in Chez | |
| | Toi to create a good old-fashioned love song with a modern, raw | |
| | and determined edge. | |
| | | |
| | "Pancake Lady", obviously a reference to Throbbing Gristle, | |
| | starts off with bongos, guitars, all kinds of percussions to | |
| | create a pulsing techno song, again Bigot's playful side getting | |
| | the better of him but also displaying a real fearlessness for | |
| | experimentation and pushing the boundaries within electronic | |
| | music. | |
| | | |
| | "The Delphins" acts as a short, slightly twisted environmental | |
| | statement before we come to "Angers", a gem on this album and a | |
| | methodical and courageous piece of rock music. Its initial | |
| | minimalism and delicate vocals are "just enough" and Bigot | |
| | expertly keeps things tight without overloading things. The | |
| | breakout is the guitar riff, precise and sharp and, again, just | |
| | enough to do the job. Great things can be said in very few words | |
| | and Angers proves this point. | |
| | | |
| | "Lost Gigabyte", another excursion with Miss le Bomb, is witty, | |
| | brash and desperate, full of warped metaphors a la Roland Topor, | |
| | both in the lyrics and music. References to modern technology can | |
| | be a hazardous thing but Lost Gigabyte turns out to be a song not | |
| | about computers but about discovering something or someone you | |
| | love and the constant and damning curiosity of "what's on the | |
| | other person's mind". | |
| | | |
| | "In Limbo" is a characteristic Electronicat track, a haunting, | |
| | slow, synth-filled melody, dreamy and remote and reminiscent of | |
| | Twin Peaks, shadows, lost love, undiscovered things. | |
| | | |
| | The final track, "She's a Queen", is an older track that | |
| | previously appeared on a vinyl-only album of Bigot "Catatac". | |
| | This is Bigot doing what he has become renowned for, a manic | |
| | sci-fi moog introduction followed by the signature droning, | |
| | distorted heavy bass line which constitutes a shuffle rhythm, | |
| | leaving the rest of the beats almost redundant. A saturated, | |
| | quacking rhythm guitar joins in, catapulting us into | |
| | rockabilly-world and transforms itself into a guitar line | |
| | straight out of a spaghetti western. All the elements join | |
| | together in a perverted choral climax and with that | |
| | Electronicat's latest album Chez Toi comes to an end. The only | |
| | thing left to do now is press play and enjoy it all over again | |
| | ... | |
| | | |
| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. Du Vent 3:47 | |
| | 02. Chez Toi 3:38 | |
| | 03. Seveneves 3:55 | |
| | 04. Je Pleurz J'ai Peur 5:24 | |
| | 05. Nu Day 3:31 | |
| | 06. Pancake Lady 3:32 | |
| | 07. The Delphins 1:33 | |
| | 08. Angers 6:59 | |
| | 09. Lost Gigabyte 7:04 | |
| | 10. In Limbo 2:55 | |
| | 11. She's A Queen 7:57 | |
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ª _ Total: 00:50:15 _ ª
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