Aquaserge – La fin de l’économie (2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Aquaserge – La fin de l’économie (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:32 minutes | 441 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crammed Discs

It’s burning, everything is catching fire, and Aquaserge are singing and dancing on the embers of a world contemplated in a rear-view mirror. A world which is hyper-connected, yet forgets its primary emotions.

This seventh album by the band is an ecological poem, where present and past collide. A resolutely rock-sounding album, laced with electronics, experimental pop songs and audio archives. Along the way, the listeners will encounter traces of Oulipo (the famous experimental French literary movement founded in the ’60st), Dada and free jazz. They will cross paths with the ghosts of Ennio Morricone, Walter Benjamin and Marguerite Duras, with the shadows of Kim Gordon and Brigitte Fontaine. And other audacious and exciting melanges, in the pure tradition of Aquaserge.

The album was arranged and produced by Benjamin Glibert, the band’s guitarist and main composer.

The recording took place in a house located in the french countryside (where Aquaserge’s mobile studio was installed). The mix was done at Studio St Guidon in Brussels, the album was mastered by the legendary Dominique Blanc-Francard at the Labomatic studio in Paris.

The members of the band’s current line-up all took part in the recording: Audrey Ginestet (vocals, bass, guitar, etc.), Benjamin Glibert (vocals, guitar, keyboards, etc.), Olivier Kelchtermans (saxophones, keyboards, vocals, etc.), Manon Glibert (clarinets, vocals, etc.) and Julien Chamla (drums, vocals, etc.).Following a live recording and an album containing interpretations of pieces by 20th century composers like Morton Feldman and Edgard Varèse, La Fin de l’économie is the first full-length of original Aquaserge material since 2017’s Laisse ça être. Pared down to a five-person lineup, the group sound more like a conventional rock band than ever, but only relative to their jazzier and more avant-garde work. They still evoke Krautrock and the Canterbury scene as well as French pop and Morricone soundtracks, and they still construct songs with complex time signatures and dissonant elements. Still, there’s a directness that sets this album apart from their others. Opener “Le Saut du Tigre” has a heavy synth crunch resembling a more polyrhythmic Depeche Mode, while the lyrics suggest a departure from the ideas of the past. “Je Suis Galaxie” is a fun blast of Motorik prog with lyrics exploring dualities between gender identities. The album calms down considerably with the gentle, spacious “A Plus,” and “Incendies” starts out softly before switching to Moondog-like percussion, group chanting, and abrasive sax skronk. “Miso” is angular art-punk with dirty guitar distortion and deceptively smooth vocals during its middle section, and “LPT,” another brief protest song, has tense organs and drums intercut with tapes of sirens, occasionally bursting into noisy hardcore and lyrics sharply translating to “the police kill.” “Amerikaine” is a longer, more cinematic instrumental with slow-burning guitars and clarinets. The group allude to late capitalism on the album’s title track, yet they don’t particularly seem surprised that the end is near. La Fin de l’économie uses subtle humor and playfulness to acknowledge the state of the world and suggest how to deal with it and move forward. – Paul Simpson

Tracklist:

1-1. Aquaserge – Le saut du tigre (03:10)
1-2. Aquaserge – Sommets (04:16)
1-3. Aquaserge – Soline (03:16)
1-4. Aquaserge – Copychat (01:18)
1-5. Aquaserge – Je suis galaxie (03:40)
1-6. Aquaserge – À plus (03:01)
1-7. Aquaserge – Incendies (03:22)
1-8. Aquaserge – Miso (02:48)
1-9. Aquaserge – LPT (01:52)
1-10. Aquaserge – Shoot de love (04:41)
1-11. Aquaserge – Amerikaine (05:39)
1-12. Aquaserge – La fin de l’économie (03:25)

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