Observations + Descriptions Honey For Petzi SKU: TWOGTL93LP Barcode: 7640186551380 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Two Gentlemen Released Date: 8th April 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Includes CD Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Honey for Petzi returns. (A little) more than a decade after the last album of the trio from Western Switzerland (General Thoughts and Tastes, 2011), let’s celebrate today the release, by Two Gentlemen again, of Observations + Descriptions, featuring twelve tracks of frank, agile and evolving emotions – as if cut with a sharp and subtle knife. The trio, consisting of Sami Benhadj Djilali (guitar and vocals), Philippe Oberson (bass and vocals) and Christian Pahud (drums and vocals), emerged in Lausanne at the end of the 20th century. At the time, the post-rock scene was blooming and Honey for Petzi added its own corolla with their geometric music, featuring rhythmic phrasings that highlight weak beats, pitfalls and syncopations, a gripping sound and unexpected harmonic progressions. This aesthetic was to undergo several mutations in the course of the band’s outstanding records – in particular Heal All Monsters (produced by Steve Albini, no less) and Nicholson (2003), both on Two Gentlemen. At the end of last year, Honey for Petzi released a new track, Écoute: the odd time signatures that were the hallmark of the trio’s previous work were present but augmented by a form of joy, a liberating impulse that had not been heard before – a precision mechanism, once again, but underpinning an emotional statement. Grammatically, Écoute (“Listen”) could be included in two categories: as a noun (the action of listening) but perhaps also as an imperative – implying: this and what’s about to follow. And indeed: this track is both a preamble and an invitation to discover the whole of Observations + Descriptions, which is being released today. The group collectively explains its genesis as follows: “It was at the end of 2018 that we approached the idea of playing together again. After a few days together, the writing of Observations + Descriptions was spread out over 2019 and 2020. In early 2021 we submitted the new songs to our label, which was enthusiastic and interested in releasing the album.” Understandably too! This record includes a whole arsenal of weapons. Propulsive progressions: Apnée (which was also released as a single at the end of 2021), Island or Géométrie feature a polyrhythmic fury that paves the way for crazy dances. Echorec pushes the envelope even further: a punching bass, a stratigraphic guitar, vocal animalcules that play with the notion of time: a pure masterpiece of energy and strangeness – like Kawasaki and its parodic and deadpan humour, inspired by the Bardot/Gainsbourg couple. Let’s hear it from the band again: “We picked up where we left off with General Thoughts and Tastes. It was an album that already featured tracks exclusively with vocals, more ‘pop’ formats than we had done before.” The ethereal subtlety of other tracks on Observations + Descriptions (like Infini, or Dog even), with their heart-wrenching chords, testifies to this inflection, which coincides moreover with some more risk-taking: “What is new in this latest album is the (significant) presence of tracks sung in French.” This is a fertile step, which brings us right into the poetry of Benhadj Djilali, Oberson and Pahud: something that is at once a form of attention to detail, semi-automatic writing and melancholy, even elegiac ecstasy at times. Observations + Descriptions, and this is its tour de force, manages to bring together these paths that one would think parallel, why not divergent even, in a more than coherent unity or confluence. It is perhaps, quite simply, a definition of identity: maintaining a powerful heart under the multiplicity of its movements. Artist Honey For Petzi Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Two Gentlemen Buying Options 1LP Includes CD Format 1LP , Includes CD Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ecoute Island Infini Crash Kawasaki Dog Photographie Géométrie Echorec Fall Apnée Observation Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Two Inch Astronaut Personal Life Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Exploding in Sound Records / Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th February 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Two Inch Astronaut Personal Life £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Exploding in Sound Records / Run For Cover Records SKU: EIS045 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Strange Ranger Pure Music Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fire Talk Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st July 2023 £25.00 Select options Strange Ranger Pure Music £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fire Talk Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st July 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Social Distortion Social Distortion Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th February 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Social Distortion Social Distortion £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP491 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lemonheads, The Varshons 2 (Green) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th February 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lemonheads, The Varshons 2 (Green) £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP532T Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hoops Routines Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 5th May 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hoops Routines £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fat Possum SKU: FP16081 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bryde Like An Island Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Seahorse Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th April 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bryde Like An Island £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Seahorse Music SKU: BRYDE001LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cassels The Perfect Ending Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th September 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cassels The Perfect Ending £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM259V Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Left Lane Cruiser Beck In Black Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Alive | 1LP Released 15th April 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Left Lane Cruiser Beck In Black £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Alive SKU: LPALIVE0179 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Biting Tongues Live It Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Finders Keepers | 1LP Released 29th November 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Biting Tongues Live It £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Finders Keepers SKU: CACHE022LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th November 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Viagra Boys Cave World Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | YEAR0001 | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th July 2022 £18.00 - £19.00 Select options Viagra Boys Cave World £18.00 - £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: YEAR0001 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th July 2022 Read More Select options See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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