marcel share new song "task force diane"
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From: Nicolas Jublot <nicolas@geographie.co>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025, 08:27
Subject: marcel share new song "task force diane"
To: <scott@clickrollboom.co.uk>
If 'spirit of eden hazard kicking ball-boy' was a joyous, brief jaunt into police custody by noise-punk's most unhinged, 'task-force diane' is the parole that has marcel returning to its den of playful, melodic post-punk.
Let me know if we can imagine something on this and / or if you need more informations. You can find below a private listen to the second album "ô fornaiz" to be released March 21 via Géographie & Luik Music.
Kind regards, Nicolas
Nicolas
marcel
(Belgium / luik music - géographie)
"task force diane"
marcel's new single out on February 5
If 'spirit of eden hazard kicking ball-boy' was a joyous, brief jaunt into police custody by noise-punk's most unhinged, 'task-force diane' is the parole that has marcel returning to its den of playful, melodic post-punk.
Feet under the table, head held high, still full of storms and burlesque nightmares.
With riffs that blend flamenco and noise-rock à la Manitas de Plata and Sonic Youth, 'task-force diane' confirms Marcel's desire to scratch beneath the skin of our collective unconscious and explore human passions associated with fire, conflagration, and the Great Brazier of the Universe––the central theme of their forthcoming album, 'ô fornaiz', slated for release on March 21 via Luik and Géographie/Modulor Music.
Simon & Vincent Lynen, infernal brothers from the Brussels band Frankie and the L.I.A.R.Ensemble (Exag Records, Brussels), directed the accompanying animated video.
It is based on lyrics by Amaury Louis, which were inspired by the lives of the first beguines in what is now Belgium around the 12th and 13th centuries.
Their mortifications, crying fits, and other mystical flights of fancy are recontextualized in a modern comic-horrific world, where offices are boats floating on seas of tears, themselves fed by office workers on the verge of the Venerated Burn-Out.
We witness the fate of Diane, no longer the huntress from Greek antiquity, but a headhunter for a company run by a terrible Pope-CEO.
To boost output, he organizes a competition between departments to win an all-inclusive trip to Disneyland. A dream come true!
Diane, a bureaucratic reincarnation of the excessive Catholic zeal of Marie d'Oignies (1177-1213), puts her heart and soul into meeting Mickey and his gang, weeps profusely and finally gives up the ghost, exhausted, while her colleagues end up worshipping her posthumously.
Canonized for her devotion to the Holy Profit, she is one of the company's martyrs, burned from within like a Joan of Arc de l’Open Plan.
Hurrah!
marcel
(Belgium / Luik Music - Géographie)
Since 2021, Belgian band marcel has managed to offer undemanding yet generous music, exactly halfway between Dead Kennedys and Talk Talk, Nina Hagen and Jacques Dutronc, but with a severe penchant for poetic-horrific lyrics about the strangeness of earthly existence. They'll appeal to your anarchist granny as well as your 5-year-old nephew who thinks he's right-wing, while 76% of adults who've seen them live claim to have felt a tingly, stinging joy, according to Eurobarometer.
One day, they'll record an album of free jazz or bossa nova in Walloon. But for the time being, they excel in a bastardised, experimental, unorthodox form of punk, un-tranquil and proud as a peacock that has lost all its feathers from bellowing baselessly all over the village. Their latest album was produced and mixed by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls,...) and will be released by Luik Music and Géographie in March 2025. What else is there to say? Yeeeeeehhhhh !
ô fornaiz - second album out on March 21
