Sofa So Good Totorro

• 1 Bang Bang 02:20
• 2 Matthews Bridge 02:41
• 3 New Music 04:15
• 4 Destiny's Chives 05:26
• 5 Sofa So Good 01:50
• 6 Sensation IRL 05:37
• 7 Bernard Guez 05:39
• 8 Bonnet Free Jazz 03:49
• 9 Smile Paste 07:34
• Total Runtime 39:11

Info zu Sofa So Good

With Home Alone, released in 2014, Totorro made a strong impression from the outset: quite far from the screamo post-rock sounds of their debut, their recipe for high-energy instrumental rock quickly gave them unexpected visibility, even in Japan and Mexico. By combining the explosive math rock side of And So I Watch You From Afar, the melancholic leanings typical of emo bands such as American Football, post-rock tracks that look towards the maestros of Explosions In The Sky, and by packaging it all in a sparkling – but never saccharine – pop narrative, the four were right on target. However, a few years after confirming all the good things we thought of them with Come To Mexico (2016) and numerous stage performances with contagious energy, the Rennes natives entered into an indefinite hibernation phase. And while three of its members have gone off to pursue other musical pursuits – notably in a melodic hardcore register (Do It Later) – one could legitimately wonder if we would ever see them together again. Until last year when, after a six-year hiatus, the math rock band probably the most famous outside France announced the resumption of its activities and the arrival of a new album… Sofa So Good finally arrives to immediately follow in the footsteps of its predecessors as the four friends continue to pull the different threads that constitute their identity, affirmed since their first album: each piece sees a slew of ideas fit together without ever losing coherence, while maintaining dynamics and efficiency, despite a truly impressive technicality at times. On stage as on album, the combo still seems to feel this primary need to have fun, the proof again here with riffs and rhythms inspired by country (the intro of Bang Bang) or tropical (Destiny’s Chives, New Music) alongside more identifiable influences – those of And So I Watch You From Afar and The Redneck Manifesto in particular (Sensation IRL) – and sounds sometimes more post hardcore (Bonnet Free Jazz) attesting to a more intense general inclination. If, despite everything, they remain essentially in their comfort zone here, the four friends are still as in phase, and in place in these structures which sometimes resemble real rhythmic puzzles. The recording carried out by Joris Saïdani (drummer of Birds In Row and Pain Magazine) in Amaury Sauvé’s studio only amplifies this feeling. As the autumn weather gradually sets in and the days inevitably get shorter, we welcome with open arms this Sofa So Good which will certainly help us face the harshness of the coming months.

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