CHOOCHOO-
SHOESHOOT
Choose Your Own Romance
(Kythibong)

COFFINS
Buried Death
(20 Buck Spin)

ASRA
The Way of All Flesh
(Black Box)

ONE STARVING DAY
Broken Wings Lead Arms to
the Sun
(KNBVI)

OBSKURIA
Discovery of Obskuria
(World in Sound)

KLIMT 1918
Just in Case We'll Never Meet

Again 

(Prophecy)

HEAVY HEAVY 
LOW LOW
Turtle Nipples and the Toxic
Shock 

(Ferret)

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It took me a while to get into this band’s music. A couple of minutes to be more exact. The track that opens this record (“Copacabana”) seemed at first too simple; a strummed guitar, an angular tempo, flatly delivered female vocals. Mmmmmhhh. I kinda wanted to pass.  It just didn’t seem to gel. It sounded half cooked. Like an idea that’s not been materialized to its potential. All of a sudden I look at the stereo’s timer and I am already in the fourth track, my foot is stomping on its own, I am snapping fingers at odd tempo intervals and I am trying to guess which avenue is Chrystelle the vocalist going to take next. Choose Your Own Romance had me on my toes.  All up and pacing the room still wondering what was it that Choochooshoeshoot had that I liked so much.

Well, to be simple and direct; if you like angular punk rock you can love these Gallic quartet to death.  They could be your favorite band. But they have a more modern approach than say, the classic angularity of someone like Wire.  There is no groove to their music, only incessant pounding that by virtue of its own viciousness little by little gets into you.

It is definitely going to also appeal to fans of the sounds of the Jesus Lizard and Shellac too. It’s got that noise ring to them. That approach where each instrument seems to have a life of its own one minute and where the music is rather soulless, but very fucking direct. “Houlette” for instance, is almost jazz in the relationship between the instruments; drums that sustain, guitars that are strummed in fast fashion until all they emit is a small wall of noise, a throbbing bass line only apparently exhausting itself and the spoken word approach of Chrystelle. Man, this is good.  

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