Very intriguing first transmission from a Paris-based group with an international line up, and who make music that follows a suitably scattered path. Sung in three different languages, the vocals match the sonic approach, a polyglot arrangement of dub, no wave, trip hop, avant pop and post-punk ideology. It all speaks very well with one another. Singer Madita Schrott is a great anchor, a sharp melodicist around which many of the songs are built, her Trish Keenan-meets-Sarah Peacock delivery married to an array of dubby bass textures, fizzing electronics and spidery guitar lines. Work and Non-Work era Broadcast, Pram and early Seefeel are fine points of comparison, and although no-one in the band is Australian, the spiritual connection with the current Oz underground feels very real - a shared understanding of new adventurous pop forms that's accessible as it is exploratory in its thinking. For a while we were calling this kind of thing genre-agnostic. Now I'd simply see it as a genre in itself, a new post-everything pop that sees only open fields in every direction. Edition of 200.
