{"title":"Africantape","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfricantape\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"marvin-hangover-the-top-cd","title":"Marvin – Hangover The Top CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1378329389\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarvin – Hangover The Top CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHangover The Top is the second album released by the Montpellier (South Of France) trio Marvin. Recorded in December 2009 by Miguel Constantino and masterized by Jason Ward, this record features a progression towards more complex yet more accessible music. By using the Vocoder and different synthesizers, they have succeded in creating a complex album touching on Hard Rock, Kraut Rock, Math Rock, Noise and Post Punk. 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Even though the band members also take part in Pneu, Room204 and Komandant Cobra, according to the Africantape label manager it's the best thing they've done, then again, he also said he didn't want to be a dick about it. I personally hate side projects; it's like a bunch of bastard kids that all look the same. But I love PAPAYE. Why? Because, it's like juicy pop with sour edge to it, the only fruit you can't put in a smoothie with out ruining all the other ones. Their references are probably somewhere in between sweet Deerhoof melodies, early Don Caballero time signatures and US Maple for the \"what the hell are they doing? Oh right I get it\" parts. The band is concise and powerful, with no other intent than pure excitement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eListen. Enjoy. 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That was pretty much my reaction when I pressed play on ‘La Ligne Âpre’ by Tormenta.  Never having heard of these guys before I genuinely had no idea what they sounded like beyond the fact they were on the increasingly consistently brilliant Africantape label, home to previous E\u0026amp;D faves Papaye, Aucan \u0026amp; Big’n, so nothing really prepared me for the intense aural assault that was to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only way to describe these guys in a way that other people can get a grip on is as Math Metal but it’s so much more than that. Other than that I really have no references for you because I don’t know anyone else that sounds like Tormenta, which is a shame because they are so awesome it hurts. Maybe the closest they have as peers are the likes of Maybeshewill or And So I Watch You From Afar but even they don’t play it this hard, with such sustained aggression, for so long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Pagan’ launches the album with a riff so intense it’s like being hit in the face with a mallet, but in a good way. Just as I was thinking ‘oh, it’s a Post Metal album’ off they jump it to something completely different and then before you can draw breath we’re back to the first riffs, and now something else entirely. It’s like Frank Zappa joined Metallica, that sort of febrile imagination applied to the raw power of a juggernaut. Mind blowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd on it goes from there, each subsequent track trying to up the violence quota, time changes, odd chordings and twitchiness on what has gone before. 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