| CD REVIEW Lantlôs |
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Band: Lantlôs Lantlôs are a French Post-Black formation with Neige, a dark-minded guy who’s also involved with projects as Alcest and Amesoeurs, as well as Mortifera, Phest, Valfunde etc. About two years after the surprising and border-trespassing debut, Lantlôs return with .neon, which consists of six tracks with a total running time of almost forty minutes. Like many French bands within this genre, this one differs a lot from the common international standards. Yes, that’s why France is an outstanding and honourful country when it comes to Post-influenced Darkness. .neon, Lantlôs’s debut for Lupus Lounge (a sub-division of Prophecy), goes on in the vein of the debut. Opening act Minusmensch starts rather progressive and sludgy, and soon it shows its most quasi-suicidal, oppressing and obscure face. The varying track -and this goes for all songs- differs in tempo and atmosphere. Slow and melancholic parts interfere with blasting eruptions of psychotic madness, and it leaves us with a disturbed, uncomfortable feeling, making me so comfortable in my misanthropic existence. Post-Rock-alike acoustics, Nordic walls of grimness (yet the French way), funereal desperation and furious surrealism, melody and aggression go hand in hand (hands bounded with chains of thorns?). This avant-garde material is oh so hard to digest, yet these hymns are oh so well-composed and performed - .neon is a MUST for anyone who pretends to dare to open his mind, at least the most perceptive as well as dark-deliria parts of the mind… 85/100 Ivan Tibos. |
