My Review: Vague Scare - Transient

 Vague Scare - Transient 

The French Coldwave/Synthwave duo are a pair you should be continuously watching out for: they don't waste time over there and their works are almost always wonders to enjoy.

In the case of Vague Scare, the quality is very high, electric flows on the skin keep the attention pure and high, because the songs on this LP are a walk into the shadows on a rainy day, where you take that dose of cold that revitalises your limbs and return home in great shape.

The sound circuit is a flagship of romantic propensities where there is no lack of nostalgia and admiration for a musical season that does not intend to die. All eight tracks are hallucinations that know exasperation, contained and then released with the notes being wrung out of them, they are long and set within nervous and metallic rhythms, the drum machine is a precise and cold girl, it does not concede any approaches and goes away safe. The guitar of Fred, who also plays synths, is a Post-Punk thrill that walks around an igloo and appears in small but refined doses. Laur, lead vocalist and also on synths, is a boy with his lapel turned up, beautifully eager to place his vocal timbre in an '80s-oriented mode, between dreamy and austere.

The season of French observation towards the glaciality of the sufferings with Vague Scare becomes careful and precise, one cannot get lost in emotional stuttering as their methodicalness wastes no time: a lesson that is good for the mind, always struggling to give space to the heart. All of which is to say that this album is a behavioural encyclopaedia, moss-laden gleams come out of the eight pages because preserving lucidity is the right thing to do...

Spectacular that their stories, whether true or invented, have to do with feelings, when everything suggests the opposite: it's true that the French duo are magnificently crazy and they are divinely so...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

27th January 2023

https://vaguescare.bandcamp.com/album/transient