HYPNO5E - review added 29th September 2009
Album Review: Des Deux L’une Est L’autre (2007)
For fans of: Alt Prog Metal... and French jazz concoctions
This is one of the most mental albums I think I've ever heard. Take System Of A Down (minus the politics), Moby, Morbid Angel and some suspiciously angry French musicians and you could end up with something similar. The sound varies between the brutal and the beautiful, from the awesome to the utterly pants.
Emmanuel Jessua (vocals, guitar, piano and programming) Jeremie Lautier (guitar), Gredin (bass) and Thibault Lamy (drums and programming) clearly do not follow the pack. In fact, on the evidence of Des Deux L’une Est L’autre, they lost the pack a long time ago.
The result is both a good and not so good thing. On the down side the album is more busy than Heathrow airport and as hard to follow as an SR-71 spyplane with its afterburners on full thrust. The flips between death metal, raw heavy rock, dance, jazz and chillout are so frequent and unexpected you won't even remember what you were supposed to be listening to.
On the plus side, the guitars sound utterly phenomenal and the album as a whole is strangely enjoyable.
It's not something I'd want to listen to just at the drop of a hat. Des Deux L’une Est L’autre, with it's French language moments, dalliances with angst, fear and love, is an experience to save for very precise moments. When those are, I have no idea...but I'm sure I'll work it out.
Check out... The madness and (possibly) brilliance of it all.
Track List:
1. Maintained Relevance Of Destruction Part I
2. Maintained Relevance Of Destruction Part II
3. Daybreak At Slaughter-House
4. H492053
5. The Hole
6. Scarlet Fever
7. Tutuguri
8. Naked Lunch I
9. Naked Lunch II
10. Remords Posthumes
Artist's website(s): Hypno5e , MySpace
