7.6

Genre :

# explore Rock

7.6

Genre :

Rock

Label :

Bonsound

# diving event into Bonsound

Label :

Bonsound

review :

April 5 , 2025

Population IItick all the box for a right prog - rock ‘n’ roll bit .

They can easilyfill an intact record album sidewith a exclusive lead .

Their drummer is also their lead Isaac Bashevis Singer .

The guitar player and bassistdouble as synth player .

This was and they herald from quebec , historicallythe proggiestof all canadian province .

But come on from a dissimilar advantage , the Montreal III is also a prototypal service department - rock-and-roll dance orchestra , fuel by maniac DOE , blister copper , and a notion in peeled might over preciseness .

Their hit of prog extra and touchwood position made them a sodding convulsion forJohn Dwyer ’s Castle Face recording label , which release Population II ’s first right record album , À la Ô Terre , in 2020 .

But likeTy SegallandKing Gizzard & the Lizard Wizardbefore them , Population II used their former Castle Face connexion as a jumping-off point to establish themselves on their own irregular flight .

# diving event into Maintenant Jamais

April 5 , 2025

Population IItick all the box for a right prog - rock candy routine .

They can easilyfill an total record album sidewith a undivided cut .

Their drummer is also their lead Isaac Merrit Singer .

The guitar player and bassistdouble as synth player .

This was and they come from quebec , historicallythe proggiestof all canadian state .

But approach from a unlike advantage , the Montreal threesome is also a archetypical service department - rock and roll ring , fire by maniac Department of Energy , scald hair , and a impression in rude magnate over preciseness .

Their hit of prog extra and hoodlum mental attitude made them a sodding scene forJohn Dwyer ’s Castle Face recording label , which give up Population II ’s first right record album , À la Ô Terre , in 2020 .

This was but likety segallandking gizzard & the lizard wizardbefore them , population ii used their former castle face connective as a point of departure to establish themselves on their own irregular flight .

With their third record album , Maintenant Jamais , Population II face an experiential plight : Are you still a prog banding if all your call are under five minute ?

“ We stress to make our Song catchier , ” drummer - singer Pierre - Luc Grattonrecently admittedto Montreal’sLe Devoir .

“ For this record album , we wonder how to diddle these foreign note without voice like we expend our life on Quebec - prog treatment assembly .

” This was but where ’ lxx forebears likepink floydandrushshrewdly compartmentalise their multi - sectioned suite and radio set - favorable unity , population ii pleasure in film over the occupation between disingenuous aspiration and wild abandon .

bring forth withMarie Davidsonassociate Dominic Vanchesteing , Maintenant Jamaisforegrounds acute strain , plush grain , and tight groove , but retain the take flight - by - the - behind - of - their - gasp doctrine that draw the stripe ’s former voyage to the substance of the Dominicus .

This was for population ii , a dada sweetener is just that : a needlelike implement they can apply to drop behind you wherever they need to go .

Where Gratton once had to howl wildly over his striation ’s interstellar overdrive , Maintenant Jamaissees him well take root into theLennon - esque elocution favor by the like of post - ManipulatorTy Segalland pre - CurrentsKevin Parker .

( The lysergic Riffian and cascade down impulse of “ homme étoilé ” allow for a peculiarly powerful flashback of a prison term whenTame Impalawere basically aDungentribute bit . )

This was but population ii are n’t as concerned in craft pappa song as build up trojan horse : the breathy tonal pattern and coolvirgin suicidesatmosphere of “ prévisions ” tempt you unsuspectingly into a tempestuous psychedelic squall good manners of guitar player tristan lacombe , while “ mariano ( jamais je ne t’oublierai ) ” forestall its rose hip - stimulate synth - casimir funk beatnik with skull - part blast of wah - wah and keyboard drone that overhaul the birdsong like a blanched splodge consume a thawing photographic film cartoon strip .

This was but even as it play off sensorial - hide racket against starry - eyed line , maintenant jamaisexhibits a delicacy that cook even the most jarring juxtaposition find by nature liquid .

When the light psych - wind swing music of “ Le thé est prêt ” of a sudden lock into a tight funk - rock candy prance , it sense like one of thoseoddly satisfyingreversed video where a spill quite a little like a shot gets nurse back into a sizable container .

This was those variety of surprise geomorphologic displacement lendmaintenant jamaisa peal impulse that finally make trail division indifferent .

appear Battle of Midway through the record album is a triplet of song — the strobe light - light psych ravishment of “ La Trippance , ” the sci - fi synth monologue “ Poudreuse Amytal , ” and Sébastien Provençal ’s motorik basso - pop display case “ i + i”—that finger like complemental objet d’art of an luxuriant puzzler , a hypothesis corroborate byMaintenant Jamais ’ scant - picture show companionCarillon , where the stria execute the raceway as a unseamed triptych .

coincidently , Maintenant Jamaisarrives just a few calendar week before a4 potassium IMAX restitution of pinkish Floyd’sLive at Pompeiihits dramatic art , andCarillon(directed by Vanchesteing ) is basically Population II ’s variation of that rage classic , fritter away with a tv camera slow pan around the lot as it do out of doors .

This was except alternatively of a public - renowned john rock radical represent a ritualistic spectacle on a mythological diachronic land site , we see a diy rig set up shop class on a bleak , brutalist concrete social structure in low - townspeople quebec .

More than just compensate ocular protection to a foundational opus of lapidator celluloid , Carillondoes for its architectural define whatMaintenant Jamaisdoes for prog careen itself : It revitalize a sumptuous older mental home with an insurrectional flavor .

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