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- Date Released: August 26, 2008
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Alien8 Recordings / IODA
Calling all closest goths on the dancefloor.
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We Say...
Having honed their aggressive brand of synth-punk over the last five years, Montreal's Duchess Says has finally dropped their debut, Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs. In a shambolic style similar to labelmates Les George Leningrad, the quartet blast through 13 dark, shattered tunes. Obviously indebted to post-punk heavyweights both past (they cover Six Finger Satellite's "Rabies") and present (ghosts of pre-italo Glass Candy abound), Dutchess Says relies on savage energy and bitingly catchy hooks to carry the album.
With much of Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs consisting of two-minute punk blasts, it's often the stretched-out spook tracks that hit hardest. "I've Got the Flu" eerily pairs a heavy distorted bass dirge with a spiraling synth wail and the slow burn intro of "A Century Old" makes for a creepily affecting prelude to the carnival-esque, destroyed dance-punk of the final two minutes. While hardly revolutionary, Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs's dark n' dirty grooves are perfect for the closest goths on the dancefloor. -
They Say...
Montreal new wave revivalists Duchess Says are less interested in note-perfect re-creations of the sound of MTV's first few years than they are in adapting the style's basic building blocks -- warped funk rhythm sections, scratchy rhythm guitar lines, monophonic synths, hiccuppy vocals -- into a modern structure. Therefore, their debut full-length kicks off with the song "Tenen Non Neu," a two-minute blast of punky new wave fury featuring a rubbery bass riff front and center behind singer Annie-Claude Deschenes' feral, wordless howl of a lead vocal. Heavier than the bands they take their main influences from, Duchess Says add grinding punk and metal elements to tracks like "Ccut Up" and the alternately droning and shrieking "La Friche," keeping them from sounding like the wimpy little A Flock of Seagulls wannabes that too many bands in the new wave revival scene end up as. (Comparisons to the equally aggressive fellow Montrealer Peaches and labelmates Lesbians on Ecstasy, whose shtick brings earnest old gay-themed pop songs to the contemporary dancefloor, are perhaps pertinent here.) They're not completely married to the whole '80s thing anyway: the album's sole cover is a tightly wound version of "Rabies (Baby's Got The)" by '90s noise-rockers Six Finger Satellite, which suggests an admirably broad grasp of the history of their particular brand of skronky noise pop. Equally fun for mindless freestyle dancing and armchair detective games of "Spot the Influence" (dig how much Deschenes sounds like Missing Persons' Dale Bozzio on "Black Flag"!) Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs is a charmingly rough-edged gem.
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| 01. |  |
Teneu non neu |
2:12 |
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| 02. | |
Ccut Up |
3:53 |
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| 03. | |
La friche |
2:03 |
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| 04. | |
AEAE |
2:38 |
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| 05. | |
Rabies (Baby's Got the) |
3:22 |
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| 06. | |
A Century Old |
4:15 |
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| 07. | |
Melon |
3:04 |
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| 08. | |
I've Got the Flu |
5:09 |
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| 09. | |
Black Flag |
4:00 |
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| 10. | |
C.H.O.B. |
1:01 |
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| 11. | |
Les residents |
2:04 |
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| 12. | |
Lip Gloss Babyla |
2:45 |
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| 13. | |
Prologue (Gilbert) |
5:37 |
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13 Total Tracks, 42:03 Total Length
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- Ryan Morey - Mastering // Jesse Gagnon - Engineer
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