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Bryan's Magic Tears

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Format: CD

Cat No: BB108CD

Release Date:  15 February 2019

Label:  Born Bad Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3521383450055

Genres:  Rock  Shoegaze  

Release Date:  15 February 2019

Label:  Born Bad Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3521381550061

Genres:  Rock  Shoegaze  

  • Description

    Remember those moth-eaten American bands on unreachable Midwest labels that, in the mid-1990s, would drop choruses that would make the Smashing Pumpkins green with envy, with the crummiest sound in the history of electricity? Maybe not. Well, Bryan's Magic Tears could have been one of them.

    This project launched four years ago by Benjamin Dupont (Dame Blanche), which features members and ex-members of La Secte Du Futur and Marietta, indeed has it all to occupy this niche, which, by the way, has quite fallen into disuse these days: toxic melodies, guitars oscillating between whiplashes and caresses, ghostly sonorities and a convoluted name referring to some obscure Parisian acid dealer.

    But wait: this is not about a vain stylistic exercise put together by some gifted kids who fantasize about a time they missed, nor a sad revivalist meeting of old farts who still haven't gotten over turning 40. If listening to Bryan's Magic Tears brings the 90s to mind, it's not because of the sound - which, as it happens, is very close to that of their tour partners Le Villejuif Underground or Jessica93 - but because of a state of mind that was peculiar to the time and to this particular moment in adolescence, when the last illusions aroused by the fall of the Berlin Wall were slowly fading away, when the dark clouds of the first Gulf War were piling up; this carefree, jaded spleen perfectly depicted in Gregg Araki's films or in songs by Sebadoh, Beat Happening or Nirvana.

    Description

    Remember those moth-eaten American bands on unreachable Midwest labels that, in the mid-1990s, would drop choruses that would make the Smashing Pumpkins green with envy, with the crummiest sound in the history of electricity? Maybe not. Well, Bryan's Magic Tears could have been one of them.

    This project launched four years ago by Benjamin Dupont (Dame Blanche), which features members and ex-members of La Secte Du Futur and Marietta, indeed has it all to occupy this niche, which, by the way, has quite fallen into disuse these days: toxic melodies, guitars oscillating between whiplashes and caresses, ghostly sonorities and a convoluted name referring to some obscure Parisian acid dealer.

    But wait: this is not about a vain stylistic exercise put together by some gifted kids who fantasize about a time they missed, nor a sad revivalist meeting of old farts who still haven't gotten over turning 40. If listening to Bryan's Magic Tears brings the 90s to mind, it's not because of the sound - which, as it happens, is very close to that of their tour partners Le Villejuif Underground or Jessica93 - but because of a state of mind that was peculiar to the time and to this particular moment in adolescence, when the last illusions aroused by the fall of the Berlin Wall were slowly fading away, when the dark clouds of the first Gulf War were piling up; this carefree, jaded spleen perfectly depicted in Gregg Araki's films or in songs by Sebadoh, Beat Happening or Nirvana.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ghetto Blaster
      • 2. Ceo
      • 3. Marry Me
      • 4. Lilac Tree
      • 5. Change
      • 6. 4 Am
      • 7. Sweet Jesus
      • 8. Slamino Day
      • 9. Oscillo Trail

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ghetto Blaster
      • 2. Ceo
      • 3. Marry Me
      • 4. Lilac Tree
      • 5. Change
      • 6. 4 AM
      • 7. Sweet Jesus
      • 8. Slamino Day
      • 9. Oscillo Trail