MUSIC FOR BROKEN ELEVATORS

1. The Blissful Little Life of Frank Bigbof for the explosive track, avant-garde for the atmosphere; notes of instruments placed end to end, a little jazzy, heavier, much more violent and crazy with the bass and the drums, both aggressive and catchy; the musical comfort zone is reached with this dark Crimsonian hard fusion, with this invasive minimalist cold wave sound, this festive fairground break, this desire to surprise, well, Unexpect comes back to me; the finale worthy of a cinematic soundtrack, in fact. 2. The Short Way Home with its bass line over children's screams; a voiceover and a slow musical drift into an ambient psychedelic alternative mode, solemn and haughty vocals; an agonizing Crimsonian escape. The finale with this post-syncopated guitar solo takes you far, high, beyond, it becomes fruity.

3. Glory Whole in compulsive Latin-jazzy mode with the track Addict for the frenetic build-up. 4. Letter to Sandrine for the Levin-esque bass, see 'Thrak' or 'Discipline'; a repetitive tune alternating with the relative softness of the Noise Box; a sensation of musical cataclysm with an abusive synth fire. Experimentation reaches its peak with the cinematic and explosive crescendic finale for orgasmic trance; the crystalline outro brings us back to prog earth and rests the ear. 5. Atmosphere ... on that of Joy Division; a simple, monolithic, solemn sound reminiscent of the work of Siouxsie Sioux and perplexing with this Olympian keyboard and bass from the Cure in the background. The sound is invented, exported, and is not just noise.

Often instrumental music that feels like waves crashing onto pebbles in a cyclical and uninterrupted fashion, alternating dissonant and melodic notes for inventive psychedelic-post-rock-jazzy. (3.5)

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