Colder
Heat

THE REVIEW

Second album for this group, project, or whatever it may be, represented nonetheless by Marc Nugyen Tan, a thirty-year-old Parisian, musician and graphic designer, with a listening background of sure "80s" dark-wave origin and surroundings. After a first album of sure interest but with some continuity flaws, he releases this small masterpiece after two years, this centrifuge of sounds and styles that represented the first part of the eighties, but refreshed in an original way. Said like this, it might seem trivial, definitely "already heard, what a bore!" but it is not.

Ten jewels where nothing is left to chance, indeed at the production level it reaches the manic, unlike other works around with more renowned names. Less hypnotic than the previous album, this "Heat" burns with heat, spectral and still, the stillness that is the part that distinguishes this artist entirely sequences, samplers, and other musicians, is the most curious part of the entire work, where he manages to deny any song an harmonic and melodic evolution, all the songs seem to remain on the same chord or almost, where only Marc's voice, deep distant and highly reverberated, manages just to give a sense of harmony. Tracks like "Wrong Baby" where the bass and drum (surely reminiscent of Joy Division) sound divinely together, and where the elegance and depth of "Winter's Field" show in which direction the album goes. Or the rhythm of "To The Music" or the sounds of "On My Mind" where the Kraut reference is undeniable, moving to the flat calm of "Fade Away" and the fascinating and melancholic "Your Face", or the rolling snares of "Losing Myself", ending on a minor note with the rhythms of "Downtown" and "Tonight" without forgetting the somewhat Depechemodian (in the rhythm) "Burnout".

An album for fine palates, where research and sound quality are the first rule, an album that can be listened to in small doses, but that shows its best only after several listens! A great work nevertheless, in every respect, where references to names of the past manage to be unnecessary, a must-have!