Malajube - Trompe-L'oeil

French-Canadian indie-pop Malajube gives us Trompe-L'oeil, an epic mishmash of indie styles ranging from the Arcade Fire's dark and dancy, Broken Social Scene's listful happy-go-lucky, Mew's peculiar but majestic sense of melody, to some French-Canadian neoclassical madness you've never heard before. It's really hard to put a label on this band, but they are here to party, to write whatever music they feel like playing, and, with this release, to stay as perhaps one of the most influential bands out of Quebec at the moment. The arrangements are great. Clanky SG guitar tone mixes quite well with the two keyboardists in the band, who cycle through dense m83ish tones on "Fille à plumes" to tinkly synth bells on "Pâte filo" to vaguely out of tune upright piano on "Le crabe". Variety is the name of the game for these guys but they're surprisingly very consistent within the framework that they've established for themselves. The progressions and transitions are totally adventurous, each section blossoming into the next as the singers take you through a survey of five or six different indie vocal styles, some abrasive and others simply gorgeous. Vaudevillian ragtime piano playing joins french ranting in the intro to "Ton plat favori", but the band is on to something pretty and melodic and back again as quickly as the song starts. And did I mention that you'll want to dance to it? One of my favorite "indie" bands of the moment, Malajube has given us something for every fan of any indie subgenre on this album.

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