De-Bons-en-Pierre - Card Short of a Full Deck (Dark Entries)

 

Title: Card Short Of A Full Deck

Artist: De-Bons-en-Pierre

Label: Dark Entries

Cat Number: DE-301

Genre: Mutant Disco

1: Card Short Of A Full Deck

2: Le Rale du Male Alpha

3: Accidental Surgeries

4: Puddle Points

5: Scene Serpents

6: Une Fuite Chaussee Mais Sans Lacets

De-Bons-en-Pierre are Beau Wanzer and Maoupa Mazzochetti and this is their third release on Dark Entries. According to the press that comes with it, it’s “a noxious hybrid of 80’s DIY cassette electronics and 90’s Birmingham techno.” What it feels and sounds like is concise, cerebral sleaze calibrated to the demands of a hermetically sealed fetish cult with a predilection for dissonant dancing. There’s a reasonable range of tropes across the 6 tracks, but none is more omnipresent than a general aura of doom. Side-by-side, ‘Accidental Surgeries’ and ‘Puddle Points’ take the listener from a syncopated industrial stomp, to a gnarly break beat exposition. Either side of this core, however, the production feels like it is geared to a more smacked out feel. There’s also an epileptic feel, as if the music itself is self-sustainable only through its immediacy and it’s seedy urban underbelly vibes creating the overriding impression that we’re all going to hell in a handcart.