My Review: Spleen XXX - Poems of Charles Baudelaire

 Spleen XXX - Poems of Charles Baudelaire

Normandy is a reasoned chaos, with no possibility of denying the greatness of intuition and complex brain-work, for an avant-garde that is inherent in the air that surrounds and protects it.

Musically, then, the list of bands that have made the presence of what the old scribe previously asserted extraordinary is endless.

Spleen XXX is a thunderbolt of conflicting instances, a basin of salty drops, in ruinous fall only for auditory apparatuses allergic to the most sensible noise. Of course, this is music when it comes to this LP, and magnificent it is too, but what must be noted is the propulsive force that goes beyond the enjoyability and usufruct factor: we are in front of a rational teletype of streams with straight, parallel legs, structured to leave no doubts, because what they need is to make the listener conscious through hammers of shaggy and bad senses, of that necessary wickedness nowhere else to be found.

The bass and guitar are, in this discourse, archers and the emblem of a cohabitation that thrives on uncomfortable impulses. They go beyond beauty as wounds tamed by dying intellects.

The drumming is a punishing, often muffled, beating, just like the guitars coming out of a red-hot iron factory, to make the bruises received become a kind of education. The singing is an industrial poetry that does not have to please: it serves an awareness that shatters the comfort zone with its low register.

For all this, the extraordinary movements of Her Hair and Beauty serve as examples: it is up to them to form your knowledge and then go on to touch the other six compositions.

Of course: Post-Punk - Gothic Rock - Minimal Wave are the easy shores to say 'wow, these French guys are nice': be smart, go beyond what could easily ruin their value and study their Art, because you cannot always postpone the appointment with duty... And yours is to take notes: the Masters of Rouen need your attentive listening and History has no time to waste.

Let it be a precious approach: the poems of Charles Baudelaire are an unmissable appointment!

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

27th March 2023

https://meidosemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/poems-of-charles-baudelaire