Album Rating: 3.7

We shall see won’t we.

Album Rating: 3.5

I was actually defending the Walrus’s stance on face-value, I think. I was saying this can and may well be AOTY now because x y z hasn’t been released yet and how would you know until it did? I’m admittedly humourless though.



In reality this is maybe my 5th-ish fave album of January.

doubt this is even aotm but will check xD

Album Rating: 3.5

It’s not. It is very very good though. Impressive amalgamation of styles.

Album Rating: 4.5

It was AOTM for me, at least out of the ones I had chance to check out...

Album Rating: 4.0

Never heard of these guys before this album and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. Love the weird, love the black, love the neo-classical, love the gypsy jazz. Leave it to the French to put pure madness into avant-garde.



The last couple minutes of Fin Defunt are a straight-up rip of Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5...I don't dislike it, but it def confused me a little. Why not, I guess. Haha.

Album Rating: 4.5

That's far from being the only musical quotation in this.

Album Rating: 3.7

Little Easter eggs everywhere agreed

Album Rating: 4.0

This is an excellent album. I love how the different musical ideas are combined so well. It's avant-garde for sure, but also feels really consistent.

Funnily enough, with reference to the people mentioning Peste Noire in this comment thread, I believe the song 'PN Mais Costaud !' (PN But Strong!) is about the fact that they often get compared to Peste Noire what with them both being 'insane French groups'. They don't seem very friendly towards Famine and Peste Noire and it's largely about how they're much better. I figured this out with the help of google translations of the lyrics though since my French is very rusty.

well fuck me sideways this is some oddball stuff. I think I love it.