Ombre claire, by Cities A.D.

Ombre claire

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Cities A.D. "Ombre Claire" (Crudités / SDZ - CRU015)

Cities A.D. est un groupe belge né de la collaboration entre Sébastien Schmit (Neptunian Maximalism, K-branding, etc.) et Phil Maggi (Ultraphallus, Iva Bedlam, etc.). La musique présente sur ce premier album "Ombre Claire" a été entièrement élaborée par correspondance entre Bruxelles et Liège durant l'année 2020.

"Ombre claire" prend à la gorge dès le premier morceau. On tombe dans le gouffre. D'un pôle à l'autre, de bout en bout l'album brûle d'une pop sombre et expérimentale, de celle trempée dans les premiers Young Gods ou Sprung Aus Den Wolken autant que dans quelques échappées dada de DDAA.

On est frappé par ces paroles en flux libre, la densité des textures, le goût certain pour la percussion dans tous les sens du terme et même une forme de lyrisme écrasé sous le poids de l'époque. Le chant se fait parfois murmure ou froide incantation, le panoramique se déchire comme un conducteur devenu semi. Mais les saisons changent et avec les souffles chauds on file dans des immensités étouffantes avant de retomber dans la boîte noire, un goût acide à l'esprit.

"Ombre Claire" fait l'effet d'une fresque cinématographique, une fiction psychédélique que je vous invite maintenant à découvrir.

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Cities A.D. is a Belgian band born from the collaboration between Sébastien Schmit (Neptunian Maximalism, K-branding, etc.) and Phil Maggi (Ultraphallus, Iva Bedlam, etc.). The music present on this first album "Ombre Claire" was entirely elaborated by correspondence between Brussels and Liege during the year 2020.

"Ombre claire" takes to the throat from the first track. One falls into the abyss. From one pole to the other, from beginning to end the album burns with a dark and experimental pop, soaked in the first Young Gods or Sprung Aus Den Wolken as much as in some dada escapes of DDAA.

We are struck by lyrics in free flow, dense textures, a certain taste for percussion in all the senses of the term and even a form of lyricism crushed under the weight of the time. Songs sometimes becomes murmur or cold incantation. But the seasons change and with the warm breaths one spins in stifling immensities before falling back into the black box, an acid taste in the mind.

"Ombre Claire" is like a cinematographic fresco, a psychedelic fiction that I invite you to discover.

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released February 11, 2022

CITIES A.D.
Sébastien Schmit - Phil Maggi
Artwork by Dominique Goblet
Layout by Stef Steak
Mastered by Gabriel Séverin at Le Laboratoire Central

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