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MH-256 4 Bonjour's Parties - Pigments Drift Down To The Brook  4 Bonjour's Parties is a seven member strong ensemble from Tokyo, Japan. Their debut full-length release, Pigments Drift Down To The Brook, with it's expansive, chamber-music approach to song structure and production, hints at modern risk-takers Architecture In Helsinki and The Arcade Fire. Alternating between sweet and majestic, the combination of male and female vocals, sung both in Japanese accented English, is an aural wonder. Keyboards and wind instruments lay on top of a bed of dream-rock guitar, bass, and drums, creating moments of 60’s guitar pop, Neu inspired repetition, and modern electronics, all within the same expansive track. Pigments Drift Down To The Brook marks 4 Bonjour's Parties as a band that deserves close attention. |
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| A big sound with a sense of wonder to it - Remix / Should be making the world of pop music take notice - The Needle Drop / A gloriously dreamy treasure - Organ / Breathtaking experience in ethereality and catharsis - PopMatters / Nothing quite like this on the market today - Slug / You can't go wrong with this - Giant Robot |
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| It would be really lazy to say they sound rather like a slightly more restrained version of the wonderful Efterklang via the innocence and creative genius of a more dreamy sunny day Deerhoof – very very lazy way of pointing you vaguely in the direction of this rich rewarding wonderful album. Mellow orchestration, uplifting expansive structures, plenty of space to breath, no clutter. Dreamy, airy, and yes, as someone else has already pointed out; alternating between the sweet and the majestic. A combination of male and female vocals and lyrics both in Japanese and English. Warm passages of detailed mellow analogue prog rock sprinkled with delicate electronica and a hint of Neu inspired repetition, wind instruments, glockenspiel, accordion and “cavalcades of luxuriant sound”. Wonderful song titles like Magpie Will Peck A Hole In My Plaster Cast or Nostalgic Was Broken To Pieces. A gloriously dreamy treasure and a rather unique band. - Organ |
