To those who doubt it: Quebec psychedelic rock has a bright future ahead of it. The proof is with Portraits, latest album from Double Date With Death (DDWD for insiders). The very fashionable quartet – which is talked about across the Atlantic even in Liberation, Les Inrocks And Gonzai — led by musicians Vincent Khouni and Julien Simard indeed offers a stunning record. This one borrows from mythical formations, like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and New Order without ever copying them and, moreover, in French if you please… We retain pell-mell the grandiose, hard-hitting and hypnotic riffs of baroque mirrorthe hallucinated lucidity of The end and even the retrofuturism of the instrumental Vanities. Above all, there is the centerpiece, Labyrinthwhere we are immersed in the heart of a sound spiral guided by the transverse flute of Anna Frances Meyer of Deuxluxes and the elementary lyrics, but to lose your head, written by Vincent Khouni.
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