Aerôflôt – Santa Muerte CD

Aerôflôt – Santa Muerte CD

Aerôflôt are brats : they borrow but never give back. They damage, they twist and turn, they dismantle and then make their own stuff... Mixing the early Horst Tapper s Derrick gloomy aesthetics with the fierce urgency of the Modern lovers and the Stranglers, their epileptic post-punk rips Devo s sexy outfits with Black Sabbaths fingers-cutting riffs and a touch of the ESG sisters funky mood. Call this whatever you want : retrofuturistic cubist kitsch? After their Que te Den LP and disco negro, a split EP and many, many non-sensical noises with other bands (Calc, Déjà Mort, Year of no light...), here comes their new album santa muerte, recorded at the Amanita studios by Stephan Krieger and mixed by Cyrille Gachet ( years of no light , Crane angels). No more chuckles. Or maybe they are laughing like crazy. Who knows ? Get used to these songs before they get punched in your face by the band, directly from the stage, red and square like some weird Rothko exhibition. Flying with the Aerôflôt team is like sharing a bottle of vodka with a drunken russian pilot in his very own cockpit : statistics show that you might reach your destination safely, but you d better be prepared for severe turbulence.