Francophonic indie rockers Malajube were all anyone from Montreal wanted to talk about when I went to Øyafestivalen in Oslo a few years ago (also where I met and seduced B. Stosuy), and their sophomore LP Trompe L’oeil put them on course for a BTW stamp and Radio Shack commercials the world over. After a quiet 2007 the band is again making rumblings (in French, French rumblings) of releasing new material, and thanks to a tip from reader Simon V. we’ve got a listen. The next record, due out in February, is titled Labyrinthe, which is a fair descriptor of their exuberantly shape-shifting Trompe material. Its lead track “Ursuline” hints at another serving of darting attention spans and wellspring of ideas over nearly seven minutes, eviscerating the opening, plinking ballet waltz with a blend of bombastic drum fills and sky-high bittersweet melodies. By the time we shift into the spacey two-minute-vamp outro, you have to wonder if their old MySpace genre descriptor “Progressive Emo Jam Band” was just a joke or a declaration of intent. As of today I’m voting the latter.
(via Cityslang)
Labyrinthes is due out 2/19 in Canada via Dare To Care. That month sees them at shows throughout Quebec — check the dates at MalaSpace.
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Tres magnifique!
brilliant track! thanks
To me the outro sounds like the middle part of Take the veil cerpin taxt of the Mars Volta.
Really good song. I deeply in love with the way they use vocals, just like another layer of sound from an instrument. Everything is perfectly blended, so even thougn i’m a french speaker I have a hard time picking up the lyrics!!
But it keeps a part of mystery, its so cool
Something about suffering, oui?
i love these guys.
Just stumbled on this article after googling ‘ursuline mars volta’, because I too think the outro is really, really (too much) influenced by TMV. Although the ‘space’ part of Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt is played faster, it is true that the two songs sound very similar.