Deûle + Lassolas = Ladeûlas
LADEÛLAS - Ladeûlas (CD) (2025)
Here are two interesting French bands merged together to one project featuring bass, guitars, synths, vocals and - in good old Jazz tradition - two drummers assigned to the left and rightl channel of the mix. The first track of their forty-minute album beginns with crawling clean yet dark, somehow jazzy chords in the vein of Kayo Dot's "Choirs Of The Eye" and female vocals which would immediately trigger many critics' reaction to compare them with Björk - which is both wrong and absolutely on point at the same time.
Because if you're referencing the vibe most people would commonly associate with the Icelandic singer - this is not quite it, no matter where during her long solo career you apply the comparison. But if we're talking about young, quirky, wild and raw Avantgarde Punk Björk and her early band K.U.K.L.'s 1984 debut EP "The Eye" that not only hits the nail on the head in terms of singing, but also in terms of the instrumental arrangements and production. Much of this indeed feels like a slightly chaotic Post Punk group of that specific energy performing inside a vast machine hall.
Yet while this impression persists throughout all four tracks, which can evolve to an individual length of up to fourteen minutes, this album also ventures into more atmospheric, mystic Ambient moods with subtle Arabisms as well as Noise Rock, E-L-R style Doomgaze and even blasting Post Black Metal or what could me described as the meeting point of Post Rock and synthwave in that long trippy section of the closer "À Votre Service". Yet it always stays true to the unique spirit established during its first couple of minutes in the opener "Borderu".
All this makes Ladeûlas' self-titled debut a very unique and intriguing, at the right spots unpolished, yet always beautiful work.
Because if you're referencing the vibe most people would commonly associate with the Icelandic singer - this is not quite it, no matter where during her long solo career you apply the comparison. But if we're talking about young, quirky, wild and raw Avantgarde Punk Björk and her early band K.U.K.L.'s 1984 debut EP "The Eye" that not only hits the nail on the head in terms of singing, but also in terms of the instrumental arrangements and production. Much of this indeed feels like a slightly chaotic Post Punk group of that specific energy performing inside a vast machine hall.
Yet while this impression persists throughout all four tracks, which can evolve to an individual length of up to fourteen minutes, this album also ventures into more atmospheric, mystic Ambient moods with subtle Arabisms as well as Noise Rock, E-L-R style Doomgaze and even blasting Post Black Metal or what could me described as the meeting point of Post Rock and synthwave in that long trippy section of the closer "À Votre Service". Yet it always stays true to the unique spirit established during its first couple of minutes in the opener "Borderu".
All this makes Ladeûlas' self-titled debut a very unique and intriguing, at the right spots unpolished, yet always beautiful work.
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