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Tours, FR - The new album 'Songs/Motion Return' out
Six 20 years old chaps, from France -3 of them guitarists !- who are floating in the psych/shoegaze where the noisy attacks are stretched until given up.
Give up expectations of normal and conventional. Sweet abandonment of the corporal envelope when emotions are “lost” between now here and nowhere on these rough rythms.
Six old friends, from childhood, and a code name (“stuffed foxes”) reminiscing acid trips.... A plausible explanation for the undercoats and the multitudinous gates each to a different world. But also for the melodies surrendering and softening in the echo before snapping right back in the (electrified) strings.
In 2019, their first Ep, No Vacancy, including a vinyl version. And already it’s obvious, dazzling, delusional music without a fear of the instrumental. If the (English) lyrics are scarce, it is to serve its musicality and allow to vibrate even more, as in their first LP Songs/Revolving.
An album written in 2020, produced, recorded and mixed in 2021 by Thomas Poli (Dominique A, Laëtitia Sheriff, Montgomery…) at Freedom studio in Rennes and mastered at Black Box studio in Angers by Peter Deimel (Shellac, Chokebore, H-Burns…) ; to finally be released by Yotanka (Puts Marie, BRNS, Ropoporose…) and Reverse Tapes together (Mystère, T.F.T., Opac..). We have seen worst names…
What to expect ? An inspired drum faking drops before exploding in the introduction track “Sabotage” (and his voice -bold- coming in halfway in). The opposit of “Luke Glanton” and its ghosts-like choirs, recalling its source of inspiration, Ryan Gosling’s character in “The place beyond the pines”. Details are all over the place : guitars are smashing it along drums breaks on « No SoundDrive » as well as its ending in toms ; cyclothymic variations of tempo on « Oh Lord, It Came To Me » ; the cut runs of the cello in the back of « Track 6 » ; this throwback in the 80’s nightlife with « First Affront » or more over the end of « Extended » extending more than 10 minutes !
We can read : « Songs written to be played loud » in the back of the jacket. More than just a flashback to pure animal instinct, Stuffed Foxes’s dense, explosive but also well managed in terms of effects music is a calling for intensity.. intensity of the present moment coming together in harmony on stage. French rock has to expand its circle to make place for these young artists with a bright future ahead of them."