Penultimate page of the #zot2016 review that I already know you will miss greatly...
CHOCOLAT - Rencontrer Looloo (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records, November 11, 2016)
As far as we know, Looloo is some sort of gigantic demigod from the mountains of Mars, created from interstellar dust; he likes pretzels and Cherry Coke, but above all, hard rock. And indeed, there is plenty of hard rock in this album by the Canadians (from Montreal, Québec) CHOCOLAT (Jimmy Hunt, Ysaek Pépin, Emmanuel Ethier, Brian Hildebrand, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux) titled 'Rencontrer Looloo' (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records). From the cover alone, you can catch certain vintage references to a genre that are not characteristic of this particular phase in the world of alternative music ('Ah Ouin', 'Golden Age', 'Retrouver Looloo', 'Looloo', 'Les Géants', 'Le Faucon, Le Chacal Et Le Vaisse'), even though there might be some resemblance in the blistering guitar riffs to some creation by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Other tracks feature a more distinct songwriting and softer, more refined arrangements, as in the cases of 'On Est Meilleurs Qu'R.E.M.' or 'Les Pyramides', the instrumental 'Koyaanisqatsi (Apparition)', and 'Mars', which recalls a certain David Bowie from 'Space Oddity' and the piano ballad 'Les Mésanges'. Beautiful songs that give this album a dual face, but this is frankly an irrelevant issue because each song has such a short duration that the transition from one piece to another is hardly noticeable, and the adrenaline charge it conveys remains high from beginning to end.
Chocolat - Mars
CHOCOLAT - Rencontrer Looloo (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records, November 11, 2016)
As far as we know, Looloo is some sort of gigantic demigod from the mountains of Mars, created from interstellar dust; he likes pretzels and Cherry Coke, but above all, hard rock. And indeed, there is plenty of hard rock in this album by the Canadians (from Montreal, Québec) CHOCOLAT (Jimmy Hunt, Ysaek Pépin, Emmanuel Ethier, Brian Hildebrand, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux) titled 'Rencontrer Looloo' (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records). From the cover alone, you can catch certain vintage references to a genre that are not characteristic of this particular phase in the world of alternative music ('Ah Ouin', 'Golden Age', 'Retrouver Looloo', 'Looloo', 'Les Géants', 'Le Faucon, Le Chacal Et Le Vaisse'), even though there might be some resemblance in the blistering guitar riffs to some creation by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Other tracks feature a more distinct songwriting and softer, more refined arrangements, as in the cases of 'On Est Meilleurs Qu'R.E.M.' or 'Les Pyramides', the instrumental 'Koyaanisqatsi (Apparition)', and 'Mars', which recalls a certain David Bowie from 'Space Oddity' and the piano ballad 'Les Mésanges'. Beautiful songs that give this album a dual face, but this is frankly an irrelevant issue because each song has such a short duration that the transition from one piece to another is hardly noticeable, and the adrenaline charge it conveys remains high from beginning to end.
Chocolat - Mars
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