Malajube

Add Date: March 10

Artist: Malajube

Album: Labyrinthes

Label: Dare to Care

Genre: Rock

Comments:
The second full-length from Quebec francophiles has a certain creepiness permeating the whole album, even as it bubbles along catchy pop tracks like "Porte Disparu."

It's been a while since I took French so I turned to Paste to get a better idea of what the whole thing is supposed to be about.
"As the name and cover art might suggest, Labyrinthes’ treatment of religion’s permutations is nearly as mazelike as its song structures, rife with instrumental interludes and stylistic mash-ups. Single “Porté Disparu” fuses punchy burlesque pianos with breezy guitars, while “333” dashes to the other end of the spectrum and overlays strings onto Iron Maiden-worthy riffs as Mineau muses, “You rent and sell your soul / because you want to live forever.” Malajube’s ear for catchy, buoyant pop makes even morbid notions (“I know that one day / I’ll be eaten by bugs”) a rallying cry for living in the moment rather than an existential crisis. The album’s meditations on what follows the mortal coil are as sweeping as the gulf between its genres, but both are handled with rewardingly nuanced subtlety." -Paste Magazine

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