Les Belles nOÏseuses – Whiter than white – LP vinyl + insert (lyrics) – ROTOR0025.
The title Whiter than white sounds like an advert for soap. Adverts and soap are precisely what Les Belles nOÏseuses blame. Or even more precisely what they represent: consumption, conformity, economic liberalism. However, don’t expect to get a speech from Les Belles nOÏseuses. Only feelings, emotions, dreams and nightmares are conveyed through their refined musical structure. The doom-jazz double-bass reminds the best from Mick Karn. The minimalist guitar scrapes melody to the bone, to the atonal. The sepulchral and velvety voice envelopes you to take you to hell. Whiter than white: an impulsive dance of death. Lust for life, joy of dying
This deep, dark album could be situated somewhere between And Also The Trees and Current 93.
