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 Peaer A Healthy Earth Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tiny Engines | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th September 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Peaer A Healthy Earth £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tiny Engines SKU: LPTE198 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Damned, The Another Live Album From The Damned… Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Let Them Eat Vinyl | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th November 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Damned, The Another Live Album From The Damned… £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl SKU: LETV359LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Neck Deep The Peace and the Panic Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hopeless | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th May 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neck Deep The Peace and the Panic £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hopeless SKU: HR6806-1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Used, The Heartwork Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hassle Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th April 2020 £20.00 Select options Used, The Heartwork £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hassle Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th April 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Bad Religion The Process Of Belief Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP Released 25th October 2019 £22.00 - £23.00 Select options Bad Religion The Process Of Belief £22.00 - £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Culture Abuse Bay Dream Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP Released 15th June 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Culture Abuse Bay Dream £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092755510 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Adam Green Aladdin Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | 1LP, Includes CD Released 29th April 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adam Green Aladdin £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo SKU: RDSLP84 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 29th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tricot A N D (Deluxe Edition) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Topshelf | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th August 2023 £23.00 Select options Tricot A N D (Deluxe Edition) £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Topshelf Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Pixies Head Carrier Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Pixies Music | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 27th September 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pixies Head Carrier £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Pixies Music SKU: PM018LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Big Ups Eighteen Hours of Static – 10 Year Anniversary Repress Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Exploding in Sound Records | 1LP Released 20th September 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Big Ups Eighteen Hours of Static – 10 Year Anniversary Repress £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Exploding in Sound Records SKU: LPEIS001C Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th September 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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