Aussitôt Mort - 2012 Nagykanizsa

Band : Locktender

Album : Nagykanizsa

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Screamo | Post-Rock | Post-Hardcore

Tracklist :

 1. La Ride Du Lion
2. Sur Un Radeau, Des Cannibales  
3. Une Défaite A La Piaule
4. Supraliminaire
5. La Bourse Ou La Vie

Released just in time for a 10 days Russian winter tour, Nagykanizsa is a new collection of songs by French post hardcore group Aussitôt Mort. Just like the name of their first full lenght « Montuenga » (Level-Plane & Pure Pain Sugar - 2008), the name of this new record is a place the band had to cross during one of its numerous travels. Rather than releasing a second full lenght, Aussitôt Mort decided to share these new songs with friends : they are or will be released on various vinyl formats shared with japaneses Heaven In Her Arms, americans Catalyst, or on german label Adagio. Nagykanizsa is your unique chance to listen to all the songs from the 2011 recording session at studio de la souleuvre, mixed and mastered by Guillaume Doussaud of Swan Sound Studio (Taint, Karysun, Amanda Woodward...), with Marc Euvrie (Sugartown Cabaret, Karysun, The Eye Of Time) on bass duties. This session shows a new face of Aussitôt Mort, with darker and longer songs (5 songs in 35 min). Just like the life of the band that has done many tours in France, Europe, Uk, Japan and now Russia, this new CD is a long and epic journey. You'll recognize the band writing style mainly consisting of melodic guitars riffs full of effects supported by complex hammered drum riffs; but you will also enjoy the progression that the band is taking on this new recording. Every riffs, every parts of each songs last long enought to let all details, rythms and melodies be developped. These longer songs give the listener some time to dream of far landscapes, and to imagine all moments lived by the band of travellers that is Aussitôt Mort.

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Aussitôt Mort - 2008 Montuenga

Band : Aussitôt Mort

Album : Montuenga

Release Year : 2008

Genre : Screamo | Post-Rock

 

Tracklist :

1. Mort mort mort
2. une heure plus tard
3. le veilleur du grand marché
4. ...
5. huit
6. le kid de la plage
7. on a qu'a se dire qu'on s'en
8. prophète de malheur

The rest of the album fulfills the initial promise of Montuenga in a variety of ways. Beyond appending different genres and sounds to French emo's predictable core, Aussitot Mort are still in the business of writing emotionally riveting hardcore. A song like "Une Heure Plus Tard" abandons delicate guitar-work to end on a heavy and crushing climax. "Le Kid de la Plage" builds from quiet to loud, ending on an equally cathartic crescendo that fades out into static and noise by the end of the track. It sounds as if Aussitot Mort have retained just enough of emo's concern with emotional payoffs to keep that vestigial aesthetic in tact for the sake of making the tracks immediate and memorable, while leaving enough room to experiment.

Experimentation takes a range of forms on Montuenga. The most obvious comes from the use of non-hardcore instrumentation. No this isn't Fucked Up tossing in an incongruous flute melody at the opening of a song, but instead, violin is seamlessly worked into "Mort Mort Mort" or the opening of "Le Kid de la Plage" is adorned with vibraphones that nicely accompany the acoustic guitar arpeggiation. The most impressive deviations aren't in the exoticism of the instruments but rather in the innovations to guitar playing, both in the way the guitars intermingle with one another and in the way Aussitot Mort use delay and other effects. The guitar parts are really fresh on this album and most of the guitar leads are non-repeating throughout the course of the song, meaning they always come out of no where and are constantly revolving the song's energy and intensity in new, exciting directions. The ascending melody on "Une Heure Plus Tard" at 0:20 is a perfect example. The song begins on stop-start opening that invokes Daitro to a T, but then the echoed lead guitar and sidewinding accompanying riff carry the song off into an uplifting and uptempo territory that turns the introductory passage on its head. Also, the use of effects deserves some attention as well. The mix on Montuenga is heavy, but is by no means cluttered. Every instrument has its own sonic space, which means that the delay and reverb on the guitars creates little echoes and contrapuntal movements that fill in the spaciousness left in the mix. The result is gorgeous and fulfilling, and is at its best when the guitars are playing some kind of trill that sends little waves of fluttering notes out across the pan, completing the sense of saturation in the production.

This guitar work is wonderful and the alloy of influences is pretty original, but don't take the bait on this one 100%; Montuenga is not some revolutionary tour de force. It's still a genre album, but it does an applaudable job of stepping outside its comfort zone. Aussitot Mort have taken steps in the right direction, but there is still quite a bit of territory left to explore before the French scene will yield an album with the ambition, originality, and precision of an As the Roots Undo or The Moon Is a Dead World.

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Heaven In Her Arms & Aussitot Mort - 2011 Split

Band : Heaven In Her Arms & Aussitot Mort
Album : Split
Release Year : 2011
Genre : Screamo | Post-Rock

Tracklist :

01. Aussitot Môrt - Une defaite a la piaule
02. Aussitot Môrt - Supraliminaire
03. Heaven In Her Arms - Lost Title + Inversion Operation

Aussitôt Mort :
AUSSITÔT MORT (eng.: «as soon as dead») is a four piece screamo/post-rock band from Caen, France formed in early 2005.
Soon after The Apollo Program break up, Antoine, Milouze and Greg – who quit the band later – decided to carry on making music together… They teamed up with good friends and great musicians Pierre (also bassplayer in Amanda Woodward) and Cédric (from the experimental-post-rockish local band none-id).

No rules were set, no boundaries erected, just the usual “making music you like with good friends” thing. They first tried to create a new style, “emo-doom”, which could have been called “emoom”, or “doomo”, but they kind of failed. Several months later, some songs have been put together, recorded in le Studio de la Souleuvre, a remote studio in the Normandy countryside. During the process, some played french bowls, a dead mouse was found in a bed, things went pretty good.
In early 2009, Pierre left the band to concentrate on being a father. He is replaced by Marc.

Heaven in Her Arms : 

Japanese screamo fused with ideas of progressive hardcore, metal, and post-rock instrumentals.

Denovali Records and HEAVEN IN HER ARMS are releasing another new record together – a split with the french post hardcore heroes AUSSITÔT MORT. Since Heaven in Her Arms and Aussitot Môrt have been close friends for years and have shared several tours in Europe and Japan, this split was definitely overdue. 2 brand new songs from Aussitot Môrt – one epic piano based intro and a rather metal-oriented new track from Heaven In Her Arms.

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