Berlin-based imprint LPS (Le Petit Signal) prime the release of ‘Ruines, Béton & Industrie‘, a brooding album from H.L.M. (Haute Lévitation Mutée) – the collaborative brainchild of Andrew Claristidge and Guillaume Laidain.
Fusing Claristidge’s past ventures, from Acid Washed’s hedonistic electro to high-profile collaborations with Jean-Michel Jarre and Patti Smith, with Laidain’s tactile approach to sound as a Bordeaux-based plastician, the duo conjure up a 10-track procession of machine-fuelled delirium, where French post-industrial poetry collides with synth-wave, post-punk drone and EBM.
Our pick ‘Ruines, Béton & Industrie‘, emerges like a transmission from a forgotten brutalist utopia, space-delayed signals and chugging rhythms leading the audience into a sweat-slicked basement ritual on the banks of the Drac River. As the track unfolds, it mutates, shifting from a slow-burning dirge to a fevered hypnosis of dark disco arpeggios, acid-washed bass and ominous monologues dissecting dystopian behaviours in landscapes of steel and stone. The track pulses with the fractured heartbeat of an abandoned metropolis, where echoes of the past reverberate through the machinery of the present.
‘Ruines, Béton & Industrie‘ LP is scheduled for release 21st February via LPS. Order a copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. Interferences #1
2. Corps Plongé
3. Phare
4. Ruines, Béton & Industrie
5. Aphone
6. Asphalte
7. Oscille
8. M
9. Hiver 74
10. Interferences #2