Area Silenzio is the debut album by French trio Eat-Girls who are Amelie, Elisa, and Maxence.
The A-side opens On A Crooked Swing that may be a difficult place to Eat-Girls, with the off beat drums, slow burning into your mind, spare guitars fluster against distressed drums and the gauzy claustrophobic vocals.
Unison has a faraway distant feeling at its core, the Victrola adding gauze to the spartan notes and gasped vocals that have a very Metal Boys Tokyo Airport feel to them, with the odd mental freak out to unsettle your reveries.
Canine has all sorts of odd organ sounds and vocals that remind me of Chicks On Speed's slower songs. The video for it has a very David Cronenburg feel and is a must watch.
A Kin sounds like Thomas Dolby but with deadpan female vocals from the whispered behind walls variety, pulsations driving at the heart of it all.
Everything Goes In Diagonal, with shape shifting sounds skewing off on diagonal tangents.
The B-side opens with Saints Discard that during the clubs' darkest days, at the foot of the table, could signal which players are out the door this winter, or it could be about things other than Premier league football. The exposure of your features in the minimal electronica background takes a sylph like run down the wing.
Earthcore takes a Silver Apples drum pattern, re-purposing it as bedrock for this pulsing journey to the centre of the earth, Jules Verne style pulsars signalling the peril your descent may cause.
Para Los Pies Consados has a distorted dancefloor vibe, swirling keyboards and chanted vocals that sound like they have a jolt of speed running through their heads, rather than being tired.
3 Omens could easily be the theme music to a Netflix re-make of the Omen, it has dark despair at the atmospheric core, drawing you into a dark well of despondency.
The album closes with Trauschaft an industrial dancefloor headscratcher, you'll be dancing and then get thrown by the internal divergence at the songs core.
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