Observations + Descriptions Honey For Petzi SKU: TWOGTL93LP Barcode: 7640186551380 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Two Gentlemen Released Date: 8th April 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Includes CD Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Honey for Petzi returns. (A little) more than a decade after the last album of the trio from Western Switzerland (General Thoughts and Tastes, 2011), let’s celebrate today the release, by Two Gentlemen again, of Observations + Descriptions, featuring twelve tracks of frank, agile and evolving emotions – as if cut with a sharp and subtle knife. The trio, consisting of Sami Benhadj Djilali (guitar and vocals), Philippe Oberson (bass and vocals) and Christian Pahud (drums and vocals), emerged in Lausanne at the end of the 20th century. At the time, the post-rock scene was blooming and Honey for Petzi added its own corolla with their geometric music, featuring rhythmic phrasings that highlight weak beats, pitfalls and syncopations, a gripping sound and unexpected harmonic progressions. This aesthetic was to undergo several mutations in the course of the band’s outstanding records – in particular Heal All Monsters (produced by Steve Albini, no less) and Nicholson (2003), both on Two Gentlemen. At the end of last year, Honey for Petzi released a new track, Écoute: the odd time signatures that were the hallmark of the trio’s previous work were present but augmented by a form of joy, a liberating impulse that had not been heard before – a precision mechanism, once again, but underpinning an emotional statement. Grammatically, Écoute (“Listen”) could be included in two categories: as a noun (the action of listening) but perhaps also as an imperative – implying: this and what’s about to follow. And indeed: this track is both a preamble and an invitation to discover the whole of Observations + Descriptions, which is being released today. The group collectively explains its genesis as follows: “It was at the end of 2018 that we approached the idea of playing together again. After a few days together, the writing of Observations + Descriptions was spread out over 2019 and 2020. In early 2021 we submitted the new songs to our label, which was enthusiastic and interested in releasing the album.” Understandably too! This record includes a whole arsenal of weapons. Propulsive progressions: Apnée (which was also released as a single at the end of 2021), Island or Géométrie feature a polyrhythmic fury that paves the way for crazy dances. Echorec pushes the envelope even further: a punching bass, a stratigraphic guitar, vocal animalcules that play with the notion of time: a pure masterpiece of energy and strangeness – like Kawasaki and its parodic and deadpan humour, inspired by the Bardot/Gainsbourg couple. Let’s hear it from the band again: “We picked up where we left off with General Thoughts and Tastes. It was an album that already featured tracks exclusively with vocals, more ‘pop’ formats than we had done before.” The ethereal subtlety of other tracks on Observations + Descriptions (like Infini, or Dog even), with their heart-wrenching chords, testifies to this inflection, which coincides moreover with some more risk-taking: “What is new in this latest album is the (significant) presence of tracks sung in French.” This is a fertile step, which brings us right into the poetry of Benhadj Djilali, Oberson and Pahud: something that is at once a form of attention to detail, semi-automatic writing and melancholy, even elegiac ecstasy at times. Observations + Descriptions, and this is its tour de force, manages to bring together these paths that one would think parallel, why not divergent even, in a more than coherent unity or confluence. It is perhaps, quite simply, a definition of identity: maintaining a powerful heart under the multiplicity of its movements. Artist Honey For Petzi Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Two Gentlemen Buying Options 1LP Includes CD Format 1LP , Includes CD Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ecoute Island Infini Crash Kawasaki Dog Photographie Géométrie Echorec Fall Apnée Observation Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Silver Moth Black Bay Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bella Union | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st April 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Silver Moth Black Bay £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA1401V Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sum 41 All The Good Sh**: 14 Solid Gold Hits 2000–2008 Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | UMR | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th November 2024 £30.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Sum 41 All The Good Sh**: 14 Solid Gold Hits 2000–2008 £30.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: UMR SKU: 7522278 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th November 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chastity Belt I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hardly Art | 1LP Released 2nd June 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chastity Belt I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hardly Art SKU: HAR101 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Big Black Songs About Fucking (Remastered) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Touch & Go | 1LP Released 14th April 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Big Black Songs About Fucking (Remastered) £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Touch & Go SKU: TG24LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View All Seeing Dolls That’s Amazing Grace / Siren’s Echo Iron Lung Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | A Recordings | 10", Single Released 11th October 2024 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders All Seeing Dolls That’s Amazing Grace / Siren’s Echo Iron Lung £15.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: A Recordings SKU: AUK138-10 Formats: 10", Single Released Date: 11th October 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Zack Lopez Bloodlines Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bright Antenna | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 27th May 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Zack Lopez Bloodlines £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bright Antenna SKU: 0856908004523 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 27th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Stroppies, The Whoosh – Indies Only Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tough Love | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th February 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stroppies, The Whoosh – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tough Love SKU: TLV119LPX Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lounge Society, The Silk For The Starving EP Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Speedy Wunderground | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 18th June 2021 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lounge Society, The Silk For The Starving EP £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Speedy Wunderground SKU: SWP003V Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 18th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Quicksand Slip Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Shop Radio Cast | 180g, 1LP Released 14th July 2014 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Quicksand Slip £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Shop Radio Cast SKU: SRC009PMI Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th July 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Forth Wanderers Forth Wanderers (Loser Edition) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 24th April 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Forth Wanderers Forth Wanderers (Loser Edition) £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1222X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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