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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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| Marc Bianchi is Her Space Holiday and he obviously has a penchant for sweet indie pop. With XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival he's made a party record of sorts - the kind of party that you can well imagine Tilly And The Wall and Those Dancing Days gatecrashing along with Bianchi (I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or if it would actually be an incredibly annoying gathering. Annoying, probably). ‘Two Tins Cans And A Length Of String’ has a nicely ominous start before taking off into glee mode; it's anthemic, acoustically strummed chorus eventually becomes a little too inane. This is the general pattern of the album; there are plenty of ideas here, but Bianchi's desire to strike for big campfire melodies comes across as insincere and cloying. Not that music shouldn’t be happy, of course. The problem with this record is that it's a little too inane at moments, and maybe if the arrangements were more fleshed out it would hit deeper. Alas, the bedroom aesthetic coupled with the 'reach for the stars' approach make uneasy bedfellows in this instance. For those who love music that sounds like it was made by toys and pans, this was made for you. For those who don’t quite dig that style, you’ll struggle to deal with Bianchi's funny kind of happiness. - Art Rocker |
