Poste 942 - #chaleurhumaine

 

Poste 942 - #chaleurhumaine
Self-released – 2024
Rock, Hardrock, Stoner, Blues, Grunge
Rated: ****

#chaleurhumaine, the new album by French outfit Poste 942. A nod towards Christine And The Queens perhaps? Or a nice call for more humanity? For more warmth, generosity and kindness towards one another. Something the world and humankind can definitely use. Always and now even more so. It’s perhaps also a reaction to the fact that the band had to stop playing live once that pandemic thing hit? Remember that? Cause they were ecstatic to finally take the stage again last week at La Sainte Rock Festival (picture above) after many years without a live gig. They did release singles during the past years. And those showed definite musical progress and change. Big change! Biggest change, they had vocalist Virginie D join the team and her voice immediately took the sound in a different direction. Most composed, as if the rural punk and stoner rock metamorphosized into something more melodic, a bit symphonic and even catchy. Did you hear the stand alone La Danse De Fous single for instance? Or Fada Fighters, the fourth track on the new album? La Ligne perhaps, number nine on the album? Or the second track on the album and the first one that featured Virginie D, released in September 2022 La Gorgone, a big step forward for the outlaw rockers calledPoste 942. Collected all on the album, twelve tracks and over forty five minutes of heavy rock. Hard rock, as a high note, the stoner influences as apparent as the grunge and punk, it’s now often turning more metal as well. Exchanging some of that grit from earlier times for something sexier and more danceable. Did we already mentioned there’s a lot of change to find within the new Poste 942? But don’t fret, the old Poste 942 spirit is also still there, but it has aged like fine wine… 

(ps. The live picture at the top of the lovely Virginie D, taken at La Sainte Rock Festival by Vincent Driancourt)

(Written by JK)

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