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You Said Strange | Thousand Shadows Vol.1 French band You Said Strange are releasing today their stunning second album "Thousand Shadows Vol.1" via labels Exag' Records & Le Cèpe. Hailing from Giverny in Normandy (France), the quartet You Said Strange is composed of brothers Eliot (lead vocals and guitar) and Martin Carrière (bass and vocals) and their childhood buddies Hector Riggi (keyboard and guitar) and Matthieu Vaugelade (drums). Thousand Shadows Vol.1 is their second album and it is being released worldwide today! The most striking aspect of the record is its meticulous production, due to the presence of James Goodwin (producer of the last sumptuous records of This Is The Kit, Kevin Morby and Wand) and the scrupulous work of sound engineer Théophile Durand, amplifying all the precise and conscientious songwriting that the project has never ceased to evolve with its records and its live experiences. The fuzz guitars are more abrasive than ever, no longer trying to inspire the quietude of previous albums, but rather to highlight the constant dialogue of the voices and the six strings, as well as the variations present in each track, an indelible trademark of You Said Strange. “Mourning Colors” introduces this fearsome and immediately captivating variation, this sonic novelty permeating the eight chapters of a work that burns and ignites slowly but surely. Melodically, the arrangements unite with the rhythmic in order to amplify the exchanges between instruments and choirs, while concealing, behind walls of sound each with its own personality, the identity of these thousands of shadows that we meet at the bend of the keyboards of “So Sorry“, the brilliant solo of the eponymous track or the unpredictable rock dissonances of “Mediterranean” or “Treat Me“, exciting and innovative impulsive turns of the Norman project. |
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