Two years after a first album ‘Plug’ noticed and reissued by Nineteen Something in 2022, the second opus of the three French ‘Planet of tubes’ keeps all its promises of autonomy. More incisive, more mature than his predecessor, he heals all the noisy schemes of their blatant distortions, their smoking and cabalistic ambitions. From this bunch of rough thorns Steve Albini will have once again pulled the most beautiful bouquets. He knows how to boost the strengths and the previous work, the American producer works for the second time with the group, again at the studio Black Box. Little used to delegating his story and his compass, Sloy will nevertheless let Steve Albini master the album alone at the Abbey Road studios in London.

Like these lapidary titles (Red, Bull, Air, Saw, Arms), Sloy’s records and concerts never drown the fish in torrential rain. Their vibrant fission of emaciated groove and alkaline modernity, acid and acrid pop assets, hot and cold, works like a generator. Autonomous and solid, able to generate ambitious energy and create new sonic spaces, able to cross all deserts without preaching.