MY review: Art Decade - Urban Line

 Art Decade - Urban Line

France, 1991: for once we can celebrate a reissue that may allow many to see the enchantment of the Lyon line-up. The trio had established the possibility of flying over the known, of taking us into the immense zone of hungry novelties and not excluding a priori what we already knew. An avalanche of games with precise mechanics to broaden their genius towards new formations that had guessed, at that time, how much wealth was deposited in this lightning bolt of mutant colour. Dark, silky tones inside guitars that owe much to the Cure, but on the whole other suggestions are possible. There is a need for exploration in the songs, which is clearly evident: they fluctuate, there are no digressions, only immense qualities offering their face. From Post-Punk, to the most mysterious and almost hidden Progressive, from Darkwave evidently in need of contamination and not purity, everything comes together in this perennially switched-on mixer, to allow these amazingly insane contraptions to emerge to generate our satisfied delirium: you are loved by this album, lock up your day and abandon yourself to its venereal circle...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Supino

24th April 2023

https://artdecade69.bandcamp.com/album/urban-line