The DIY one-man band from Toulouse, Southern France, Drim released over the weekend his sophomore EP, “Dans le chaos le désordre”, also physically available in a limited amount of tapes.
Six tracks, including an inspirational cover, Nothing”, from the Israeli gothy guitarist Charlie Megira and the Hefker Girl, take a heady, thought-provoking journey from chaos to disorder, as the title suggests, with bitter realizations, debris-laden pathways, and misguided travails, and lost futures along the way.
Drim‘s hazy, penetrating and emotionally-driven sound clearly sits in the gloomy ’80s archetypes of The Cure’s “Disintegration” period, The Chameleons and Joy Division, massively implemented by the hypnotic and abrasive, almost psychedelic groove of MBV and The Jesus and Mary Chain from the following decade.
The somber, and restless facets are fully captured by a swarming, turbulent sonic meandering into a dense and noisy stroboscopic blanket that seamlessly blends chilly Coldwave bleakness and Shoegaze wall of sound, saturated by an augmented use of echo and delay, built on stark clattery drum machines, sullen post-punk basslines, and swelling cascades of stormy, screeching feedback laced with shapeshifting shimmering reverberations, splitting and wailing guitar stabs, and washes of spectral, whirring keyboards.
The effects-laden, dreary-eyed vocal lines often resound distant and icy, changing with, and within, each song between a range of temperatures, emotions and degrees of clarity and submersion, swept by swirling droning, fuzzy layers that ooze the thick shadows of an inner and outer aching turmoil, to turn into a final sanguine restless chant, swathed in a blaring cathartic climax, where light shines truth on the darkness.
While the last two tracks get a bit lost, out of focus, and become sweltering in a ramshackle glaze of noise, another lyrically intriguing and sonically immersive transmission from the French musician of poignant, heartfelt melodic intricacy, grasping both the rawness and fragility of human nature.
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