It's Never Been Like That (Import)

VINYL FORMAT. IMPORT! Four Parisian boys with brotherly love, set out for Berlin last summer, settling down at Planet Roc studios, in former East Germany, without a single song written but determined to write, record and produce their third album themselves with no outside participation and no compromises. It's Never Been Like That was conceived with a live mentality, in a straight line, summing up a lot of the band's emotions and past experiences, sometimes conflicting, often disrupting. All the songs are autobiographic and set down emotional equations where disillusion and exaltation try to find a common language. This is a romantic album although very rigorously made.

Rhythms are hard, arrangements straightforward, violently simple and close to the bone: two guitars, one bass, drums and a 4-month deadline. These ways of production are rare and belong to great albums.