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PAPAYE - La Chaleur

Name: PAPAYE – La Chaleur
Item: La Chaleur
Rating: 7
Author: Michele Palozzo

2011 (Africantape)

math-rock

by Michele Palozzo

Two guitars and a drum kit, the classic assault trio of rock

instrumental; three French guys, no strangers to this musical drift (already

members of Pneu, Room204 and Kommandant Cobra); twelve shards lasting an average of

just two minutes, brisk pace and few hesitations. Gripping, biting but not

furious, Papaye's debut is a multivitamin cocktail of pinpoint geometries

yet firmly rooted in an essentially rock sound – something that the enemies of

technicality for its own sake will certainly appreciate.

While showing some necessary debts to Ian Williams (early Don Caballero as much as

the raw Ep by

Battles), the trio

throws itself with unheard-of energy into its tasty melodic math-rock, which compared to the

cornerstones of the 90s boasts a vast range of colors, nuances that normally

got lost in the general coldness of the hardcore epitaph; they're something like

Hella for

dummies, catchy but anything but naive in their solid interlocking of

little notes and mutant rhythms. The formula of "La Chaleur" is concise but complete,

the result absolutely flawless: less than half an hour will be enough to change

the fate of your day.

Ride the wave of great music

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04/02/2011

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Michele Palozzo, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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