After a sensational debut with two notable albums and a growing reputation, Sloy was expected at the turn for this third album. This time not Steve Albini behind the console the band producing the album with the help of Peter Deimel and still at the studio Black Box.
Last part of a trilogy sponsored by EDF, Electrelite demonstrates that Sloy still prefers the gegene to halogen. Here, no drop in tension, but a blinding no-wave neon light, painful hardcore implosions. Sloy plays rock like we die an abscess, of which today he releases choirs, violins, a trumpet. Thanks to a profusion of sharp arrangements on a rhythmic always economic, Sloy succeeds in enriching his music while radicalizing it.
‘Electrelite’ is finally less difficult and easier to access than its predecessors, perfect launch base for the Gonzalez rocket on stage; a recording room being too narrow by nature, they wanted to push the walls and bring in their live sound. As a result, under more calm conditions, it is an album from which a permanent explosiveness.