Review Summary: Somewhere out there, with beauty on their side.
A thing like that, eccentric rock’n’roll from Algeria. It hits you in the face with both fresh dosage of old familiar rock guitar tangling, but also floors you with all the outlandish exotica of Tuareg song-writing and vibe. From the opening infectiousness of “Azzaman” to the ending beauty of “Ma S-Abok”, this is all the worldly experience you need. It is as if the band takes any day there is and just makes it… theirs. Bad day results into a swell one. Good day solidifies its brightness. A wishy-washy nothing-day you spend with no emotions whatsoever suddenly obtains colour and glamorous visage. And all through the power of otherworldly to us instrumental machinations and song-writing mastery very much native to Imarhan’s lands. This album is enchantment galore with a spectacle of a presentation, turning washed out by now rockabilly and banal blues rock sound of the past into something completely new and exhilarating. Their instrumentation is wondrous and their vocals are charming. Their melodies are catchy and their sound is stylish. There is barely anything to say about this: this just needs to be experienced.
