Lendemains Versinthés – L’heure verte
Genre: Indie folk, Singer songwriter
Lendemains Versinthés finds the most gentle spot of their melancholy and exposes it with L’heure verte.
Some musicians write truthful songs, others attempt to create incantations. Some report on reality, others tell stories about worlds that might not exist, or, certainly are beyond the understanding of most people.
For the latter category, simple comparisons and parallels with other artists are not enough to ensure our understanding of their work. These artists work to build an imaginary world that could only be inhabited by their own work, and nobody else’s.
Lendemains Versinthés gentle indie-folk of L’heure verte sounds like that kind of incantation. The goal here is not to run fastest towards the song’s hook. The goal is to gently find room in the musical territory created here. Lendemains Versinthés is a musical explorer, digging from within and pouring outwards.
Real Humans – Bricks
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Real Humans turn their prog fancy to revolutionary concerns on the single Bricks.
Using prog-rock to represent the down and out the street, urchins don’t always work out. After all, those that can truly play their instruments, usually, like to align themselves to some sort of aristocracy.
Music is always needed in a revolution, a riot, or any social movement looking to recruit new people. After all, music, almost unlike anything else, has the power to rally people around one another.
Prog-rock however hasn’t quite been the flavour of the month for would-be revolutionary militias. Political concerns aside, I’d love to watch a riotous crowd chanting to the sounds of Tales of Topographic Oceans.
Real Humans build their single, Bricks, not on prog alone, but also a harder-edged alternative rock sound. The guitar sounds are sharp, the vocals are operatic, and some kind of social upheaval feels imminent. Real Humans are modern human musicians who’ve learned great things from their predecessors.
