Colleagues Noah Lennox (Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, in concert at the FME in Rouyn-Noranda on September 3) and Peter Kember (Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom) finally offer a first duo album, composed and recorded in Lisbon, on which the personalities of the two musicians distinctly agree, united by their love for psychedelia. Kember’s buzzing, soaring guitars, Lennox’s unconditional fondness for Everly Brothers and Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies (apparent, among other things, on Everyday and Edge of the Edge), it’s all expected, and beautifully delivered, the duo’s pop song ingeniously orchestrated with guitars, percussion, synthesizers and colorful sound samples. The surprise of the album appears at the end: Living in the After, a ritornello that one would think came out of the Mexican repertoire of the 1940s or 1950s, jovial in its coating of violins. We would have taken a whole album based on this superb idea.
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