LES DISCRETS to Release New Album, 'Prédateurs', April 21. Post-Everything Duo Takes Cinematic Sound to "Much Darker" Places on Upcoming LP.
Lyon, France dark dreamweavers LES DISCRETS return with Prédateurs, their first full-length album in five years. Ever-evolving, the sound of LES DISCRETS in 2017 takes a stylistic shift which sees the band's dreamy shoegaze and metallic tinged post-rock colored with a heavy post-punk influence and electronic chill while incorporating inspiration from trip-hop and 70's film soundtracks. Prédateurs will be released on April 21 via Prophecy Productions (Alcest, DOOL).
Known through his work as part of the bands Alcest and Amesoeurs, French songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and film director Fursy Teyssier founded LES DESCRETS in 2003. On the topic of the new album, Fursy comments, "Prédateurs is an album that was five years in the making and will take time to get into. This is a record for late evenings, night driving, journeys on a train, or for those moments we usually think about the meaning of life and things, when we have nothing else to do but sitting and waiting."
Described as "the soundtrack of a slow film noir happening in a train where the journey leads the auditor to several places seen from the windows", Prédateurs is a cinematographic, urban album shaped by steel, concrete, snow and electricity. Easy on the ears, Prédateurs interprets the familiar music and melodies of LES DESCRETS with new instruments, approach and ambition. Although its shape has changed, the feeling of the music, its atmosphere and its essential core has remained the same. The songs focus on the concept of predation (the preying of one animal on others) as well as time, nature and life. Prédateurs is the album that ' in founder Teyssier's eyes ' now shapes the proper identity of LES DESCRETS.
Prédateurs is not only a new start in terms of music for the band, but also presents a change on the visual level. For the first time, Teyssier ' himself a celebrated visual artist and animated film director ' has collaborated with an outside graphic designer on the visual appearance of a LES DESCRETS release. The British artist Chris Friel, who combines painting with photography in a unique way, has become a huge inspiration for Fursy. Friel's work has even subconciously leaked into the roadmap of the band's music.
Prédateurs is advanced by the 4-track EP, Virée Nocturne, which was first made available to attendees of last summer's Prophecy Fest and hailed by Noisey as "a chilly, post-punk dream".
Track listing:
1.) Prédateurs
2.) Virée Nocturne
3.) Les Amis de Minuit
4.) Vanishing Beauties
5.) Fleur des Murailles
6.) Le Reproche
7.) Les Jours d'Or
8.) Rue Octavio Mey
9.) The Scent Of Spring (Moonraker)
10.) Lyon - Paris 7h34
Pre-order Prédateurs at this location:
https://us.prophecy.de/artists/les-discrets/
LES DISCRETS' music draws from Fursy and lyricist / vocalist Audrey Hadorn's feelings and serves to help the duo rid themselves of their ghosts and fears and express their vision of life and sensitivity related to what surrounds them, be it nature, love, death or animals. While the music of LES DISCRETS appears dark at first, it always carries a certain dose of hope and beauty which Teyssier says may be a bit more difficult to discern on Prédateurs.
"I feel that Les Discrets has its own wings now, free of the influences of post-rock, post-black or post-anything constraints," he offers. "'Prédateurs' is even darker than the older albums. Much, much darker. But just like older albums, some sparks of hope remain."
Find LES DISCRETS online at:
https://LesDiscrets.com
Follow the band on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lesdiscrets/
"It's inevitable Les Discrets will be hauled out and strung up alongside their brothers in Alcest for inspection, but of the two, Teyssier's crew are the more somber, venturing beyond Neige's fairylands and blue-bathed nostalgia trips and into more earthy territory. If Alcest float gently on the springtime breeze, Les Discrets perpetually dwell within the last days of autumn, watching for the coming of winter. Separate, yet equal, they operate within the same sphere, serving as reluctant ringleaders of a "movement" that reflects black metal's ever-changing attitudes." - PITCHFORK
