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ZENZILE
Living in Monochrome
Release date :
09-03-2007
Label :
UWe
Tracklist :
01. Still can't sleep
02. All day breakfast (feat. D. Alterman)
03. Rising fist (feat. J. Gomis)
04. Reflection (feat. Tricky)
05. Shma (feat. K-rol Gola)
06. Giant undertow
07. Pipe dream 1
08. Who's for real (feat. Jamika)
09. Offshore
10. A quest (feat. Paul Saint Hilaire)
11. Demon inside (feat. D. Alterman)
12. Pipe dream 2
13. Last drink on earth
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REVIEW
Review written by Smaël Bouaici
on Monday, October 08th 2007 - 13 081 views
You hardly recognise the band from Angers on their new album, "Living in Monochrome". Well, a bit all the same. But the logic has been reversed: instead of making dub tinged with rock, they make rock tinged with dub. Which creates a hell of a sonic difference. A bit as if they had belched out all the rock tendencies that used to wander about as shadow puppets on the previous records. We do not know the details of the story, but the guitars have clearly seized power! Heady riffs, a wriggling bass, a drummer playing straight beats, back in time, yes, this is rock. But Zenzile's main quality is a refined mix, with that way of transcending the bass that made their name.
On that front, they have not changed.
The same care has been lavished on the guitar, obviously electric and distorted. The Angers collective even convinced the Wild Bunch sorcerer, Tricky, to come and lay down vocals on a very effective disco-rock, Reflection, before cornering the dub poetess Jamika on an 80s Manchester-style groove. Among the guests, all English speakers, there is also the Welshman David K. Alderman of the Warehouse 99 Project. Zenzile, now "old", turns up intermittently, as on Rising Fist with Sir Jean Gomis, leader of the Lyon band Mei-Tei-Sho, and on a dub with an evocative title, Offshore. Having taken a substantial lead over all its French dub rivals, Zenzile has probably just released the best French rock album of the year.
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Encore plus serieusement, c rare qu'un groupe (français) produise un album aussi Xelllent que celui-ci, sans meme parler de style -pour le coup c inutile !- et super propre en plus ... on dirai que ça vient du London undaground d'il y a 10 ans. Du coup les passages Dub paraissent presque fades, et je suis un dub-addict de la premiere heure ... Mi seh Big Up Man, Irie Irie Roots Rock Babylon Killah !
A quand le hardrock pour High tone?
Plus sérieusement ça m'a fait un choc, on dirait des chansons rock commerciales passant sur Europe 2.
L'esprit electro-dub est tout de même un peu présent ...
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