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Our Blond Covers - Die & Retry

26/11/2016

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This one feels as if the nineties never ended. Do you remember those days? Rocking hard in clubs and venues until the sun came up. Visiting festivals and gigs all over the country and even abroad. Drinking beer, having fun, scoffing fans of electronic dance music and chasing hot rock chicks. Parties with the motto "no bullshit, no house music". Oh man, those were the days.Strangely, I don't miss them that much but albums like this one truly make me feel nostalgic about that era and surely put a smile on my face.

Our Blond Covers is a rock band from Paris, consisting of true nineties kids. They spent their youth listening to Queens Of The Stone Age, Incubus, Radiohead and all the other big names in the rock, punk and grunge world. This new album brings all the best influences from those days together, much to my delight. There are some bloody good songs to be found, both heavy rocking dancefloor fillers as emotional ballads to slow-dance with your (future) loved one, or at least the catch of the night...

The album opens with the title track 'Die & Retry', a great blend of punk and grunge and certainly a possible hit in this genre. Immediately after, the band drags us into the world of Queens Of The Stone Age inspired stoner rock with the brilliant rocker 'Maniac'. This definitely is my favorite on this album. It's fast, groovy and so damn immersive. After that, the tempo goes down a bit. It makes place for more emotion but also for more Incubus and Deftones inspired music. Hell, there's even a song named 'Deaf Tones'. 

'Artificial' is another highlight. It reminds me a bit of Rage Against The Machine without stepping too much into the world of nu metal. There's plenty of variation already to be found on this album, so adding another style is definitely not needed. On 'Something Wrong' the band tries out some Radiohead infused jazz rock, something which works out quite well if you ask me. It's not my favorite, that honor remains with 'Maniac'. Nonetheless, I'm sure many of these songs will appear in my day-to-day playlist and I suggest you add them to yours too, certainly if you're nostalgic for those groovy nineties too...


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