In 2018, Michael Jaworski and Sohrab Habibion of SAVAK heard a French band in a little club and decided to get that band's music released. Recorded by Michael and Sohrab, the debut album of Pays P., Ça V Aller, is out today. There's also a new video from this French trio below!
"Olatunji" we know from the video which premiered here in June, but lots more on this new Pays P. record is just as wickedly good. "3h et des personnes" rattles and roars with real bad intent, while "Vassili voir" is louder still. This, and a few things here, reveal debts owed to The Birthday Party and pretty much any band Kid Congo Powers was in, but Pays P. at least imbue this all with a spirit that's unique.
On most of the tracks on Ça V Aller, a listener feels like hypnosis has begun, with the grooves, fast or slow, enveloping all sense of time and space. This is robust music, every bit post-punk as well as something that's an heir to Fifties and Sixties stuff, or late Seventies second-wave punk. And on an insinuating number like "Corps vs Cœur" (roughly translated as "body vs heart"), we can hear sounds which are fiery, ahd the players -- Lucas Valero, Pablo Valero, and Laura Boullic -- seemingly intent on starting a sonic revolution. When Laura sings lead vocals, a listener can't but help and think of prime Kim Gordon and Sonic Youth, even if the language is different. And there's a wonderful anarchic mood here that should take most of us back to the heyday of No New York, and the feeling of discovering bands who were up to no good and doing it damn well.
Ça v aller by Pays P. is out on Peculiar Works today.
More details on Pays P. via the band's official website.
[Photo: Pays P.]