Artist.......: Soma
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2010-02-16
Str.date.....: 2010-02-12
Quality......: 180kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/somafrance
track title time
1. StΘphane Saunier - Intro 1:21
2. Soma - Electric City 5:26
3. Soma - 20 Minutes 3:52
4. Soma - Funeral Party 3:58
5. Soma - Milk 3:50
6. Soma - The Backyard 3:30
7. Soma - Get Down 3:44
8. Soma - Several Day 3:36
9. StΘphane Saunier - Ending 0:17
Runtime 29:34
Size 38.26
Release Notes:
The story began quite unremarkably: four friends at
secondary school in the mid-90s were united by a shared
love of rock, especially the Smashing Pumpkins, a band
they could all agree on. Lionnel, Seb, Tom B. and Tom F.
mainly admired the gift Billy CorganÆs group had for
knitting together competing disorders: neurasthenic
delicacy and hysterical fury in constant contact, as on a
track from Siamese Dreams entitledà "Soma".
After more than ten years touring venues in France and
elsewhere (English lyrics aiding), Soma shifted up a gear
in 2009, finally recording an eponymous EP for release on
the 5th October, to be followed by their first album on
the 18th March 2010.
Unable to choose between the obvious charms of pop
melodies and the blessed ferocity of rock, the EP mirrors
its authors, constantly oscillating between the two genres
which reach an incomparable peak when they providentially
clash, as on the compelling "Get Down", which opens the
album with what sounds like an improbable combination of a
Hives riff and disco-flavoured flights of fancy from the
Killers.
Finally, their dream came true when their tracks were
mixed in Los Angeles by one of their idols, Dave Sardy,
producer of Oasis, Cold War Kids, Jet and the Dandy
Warhols. Soma are the first French group the American has
agreed to work with.