DOCTEUR FAUST

The album starts with a slightly off-putting French recitative before it launches into its best piece, the 10 minute "Materia Prima". Slow-paced drums, almost a drone, accompany electric wa-wa effects, stabs of pain from an abused Hammond organ and vocal effects. The songs takes multiple twists and turns but remains disconcerting, kosmic and eccentric, with percussion, bass and orchestral sound effects as its main artillery. The second half goes totally avant-garde, with post-modern classical music as its main influence. No, this isn't an electronic album really.

The remainder of the album doesn't live up to this strong opening. 4 minutes of treated vocal samples follow on "Eau Ardente", synth effects join and lead into "Ténèbres", which returns to the slow-paced acid-rock of the album opening, halfway in it shifts again to very bombastic and percussive orchestral effects. "Matines" is the only track that could be called progressive electronic, with some abstract atonal electronic experimentation. "Licornes" is a rocking bit of flamenco-avant, with horse samples, rather wild. "Sang Pourpre" is a 4 minute anarchy of rough rhythmical guitars, percussion, vocal experiments and craziness.

After multiple tries I will have to redirect this album to dedicated Avant fans only, the reason is that it strikes me as overindulgent intellectual experimentation, missing the emotional and lyrical content to connect to. It may be genius, but I can't connect with it. At 30 minutes it is also condescendingly short.

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