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CONTREPOISON - I Keep On Searching

Name: CONTREPOISON – I Keep On Searching
Item: I Keep On Searching
Rating: 7
Author: Michele Guerrini

2014 (Avant!)

synth-wave, vatican industrial

by Michele Guerrini

This solo project by Pierre-Marc Tremblay first came up on our radar at the time of his first EPfrom 2011, in which he moved fluidly, if perhaps still a bit impersonally, between dark moods and synthetic litanies.

In the meantime he has taken part in one of the many collaborations with Mr.Prurient aka Vatican Shadow and a couple more tapes for his own label. This vinyl pressed by Italy's Avant! brings back, after some time (the first release, digital-only though, dates back to 2012), a new EP with a tormented soul, in which Pierre's ghosts have let themselves be seduced by the Fernow virus, giving rise to compositions steeped in industrial tar oozing from a body in the throes of death-orgasm ("No Need To Dream"), or epic, cacophonous marches ("I Keep On Searching"), without neglecting more properly instrumental moments (the opener "Every Dream I Have Is About You"). A harsh, ice-cold substance seems to have seeped into his skin and mind, adding an emotional force that was missing from his earliest work.

A record capable of instilling both fear and perverse fascination. Let's hope this new course isn't just a passing stylistic infatuation.

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20/04/2014

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Michele Guerrini, 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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