Animal Triste - Night of the Loving Dead

Here is a strange animal. A six-legged animal: Yannick, the singer (la Maison Tellier), whose voice gets better with time ("Play God", "With Every Bird"), Mathieu, the drummer (Radiosofa), real motor for the band, Fabien, the guitar player stuffed with effects (Radiosofa ditto), Sébastien, the other guitar player, more discreet but just as important (la Maison Tellier again), Cédric and his rearing up bass guitar ("Afterlife"), and finally Darko, whose keyboards widen the field of action, when not his guitar (one more!)

Are you ready to attack it very strong from the start ("Machine Love" – and not "love machine", there’s a difference)? To receive a nice big dose of rock music right in the face and not be afraid to die? (Ah! The guitar descent in "E.V.I.L")
For here is a wide rock which should be played loud. Which could even deafen in some cases... but that’s so good! Examine the full-scale plentiful cymbaled chorus of "Mary, Full of Grace". But this is not noisy music all the same, don’t worry.

But goodness, these guitars... such as a little voice in the back of your head (danger, danger), and which makes you tumble into the ravine (switching from 2nd to 3rd chord of "Tell Me How Bad I Am", 3 frets higher). Off the road. Loony.
The involvement level is so high that many of these songs bring me to a quite unspeakable state. Which obviously didn’t help writing my review.

Their first album had no name, their 2nd one splashes out on an English pun: Night of the loving dead, as an obvious reference to "Night of the living dead". So it speaks of night, death and love. With fire again, and not only on the sleeve.
And of religion a bit everywhere ("Mary, Full of Grace", "Play God", "Afterlife"), the evocation of the garden of Eden...

"Afterlife" reminds me of Arcade Fire’s homonymous piece. This is certainly no coincidence, when you know a little about the members’ musical taste.

As for the words, you may notice several connections – some songs mention the title of another one – which reinforce the record homogeneity. The record of a strange animal.