You may have heard of Phantom Records while digging in some weird
(but great) german punk bands like
Schiach
and
Pisse
or while enjoying some skilled noise/post-hardcore bands like
Dewaere
(Salut Patrick!) or
Melt Downer
but today I'm gonna write a few words about another kind of blues produced
by the German label... French punk rock!
From the very first seconds of L'étau I knew I had heard
this voice somewhere else, this guy has a very distinctive voice tone and
way of singing you don't easily forget. Damn but where was it? It rang a bell for sure but a very distant one you know... so I
had to dig...
At first I thought of the 2000s/2010s "77 punk revival" scene (you know,
these guys wearing striped t-shirts, sunglasses and badges bigger than
their heads who caught PTSD at a Briefs'
show) which, in France, happened to be mainly based in Marseille at the time. Yes these guys were playing in bands like
The Hatepinks
and
The Irritones
and were really close to the Marseille-based label
Relax-O-Matic
(which fortunately managed to get out of this niche afterwards).
Anyway that's what not exactly what I was looking for, so I kept
digging in my memories and my hard drives and thought of
La Flingue
but no... that was still not it... and finally I stumbled across
La Vase
(a "french" punk rock band from Leipzig, Germany, yes that's a bit weird)
and that was it! That was the same guy behind the mic for sure!
From there it was easy to trace the trail and fall back on my original
intuition: the Marseille connection! Indeed this guy (let's call him
Kevin) used to sing in the great 77 garagish punk band
The Aggravation
(they released a great split with the great
Defenestrors
and a great
LP, check them out!).
The band features also Jean-Baptiste Meyrieux, who's been behind the scene of numerous French (but not only) bands' recording sessions for the past five years or so (Litovsk, Douche Froide, Short Days and more) and has traded his mixing table for the drums here, and Billie from The Harry Anslingers (another fast and slightly melodic punk rock band from Leipzig named after the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics who did not get famous for his liberals opinions).
So yeah Laxisme (laxity/permissiveness in French) is from Leipzig as well (Kevin lives there
now I suppose, not a bad place for punk rock I guess) and got the same
kind of vibe The Aggravation and La Vase had, it's pure
well-played high energy punk rock and it's in French! Highly enjoyable I
may say...
So if you don't mind a bit of melody in your punk and a bit of French
kiss in your classics, you're definitely at the right place!
N,J'Oi!
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