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ALBUM
LYRICS SHEET (PDF)
We’ve
done it, kids. What better way to celebrate Slovenly’s 100th
release than by unleashing the best record you’ll hear
this year? We're proud as can be to present this debut long player
by J.C. Satàn. This band is made up of three gents
hailing from Bordeaux, France, and two girls from Turin, Italy who
cosmically collided in Bordeaux and recorded “Sick Of Love,”
2010's lone, true apocalyptic masterpiece.
Arthur
Satàn (also of MEATARDS), the principal songwriter
in the band, was a protege of Looch Vibrato of France’s reknowned
acid-punk duo MAGNETIX, who are no strangers to the process
of creating and delivering well crafted skull shattering sounds.
Arthur, together with J.C. Satàn’s lyricist Paula H.,
have concocted a swirling mix of lyrically abstract songs about
morning-after sex in a drug haze (“Woke up late in the morning,
In a bed full of Stories, There’s no love, No romance, Just
a jerk in a coma ” - From “Your Place”), and fighting
one’s way out of Hell (“This wasn’t my room, That
wasn’t my house, I saw my cat flying through the sky... This
is my arm, That is my sword, Against the darkness, Like a superhero”
(From “Superhero”).
And
the music? Similarities to THEE OH SEES can be pinpointed,
but in concept alone. This is by no means a band who’s latching
on to a current sound in any way. There are more Black Lips
imitators out there now than there ever was for the Oblivians/
Gories, but J.C. Satàn has avoided trends and triteness
to develop into a completely mature unit, defining their own style,
and have wound up in a league of their own. Musically the melodies
have more in common with the darker psych melodies of Can
(“She Brings The Rain” especially), Os Mutantes
(“Ave Lucifer,” specifically), The Beatles (“Sun
King,” one of “Abbey Road’s” most beautifully
haunting moments) and perhaps even Pink Floyd at their moodiest.
“Sick of Love” transports you, grinning, through a maze
of sunshine, nitrous oxide and mushrooms, then crescendos and climaxes
into a wall of gorgeous-yet-hateful mid-tempo feedback driven fist
shakers a la the Jesus and Mary Chain, reminding you that
this is more about just being pretty. It’s also about being
ugly and unloved, yet strong enough to to fight against the darkness
like a superhero.
Directly
following the release of this soon-to-be classic LP in September,
J.C. Satàn will be altering perceptions across Europe for
the month of October, and sharing the stage with contemporaries
like Davila 666, Yussuf Jerusalem & Digital
Leather in the process.
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