Pepe Deluxé - Queen Of The Wave
(CD/LP) Catskils RIDCD23, 2012-01-30
Queen of the Wave is the fourth record from Finnish duo
Pepe Deluxé. Their first album,
Super Sound, released in 1999 on Catskills Records, has aged quite much since then. Their second one,
Beatitude, from 2003, saw them starting to write real songs, with arrangements to be filed between
DJ Shadow,
The Herbaliser and
The Beatles. It was one of the major
electronic album releases of the year.
Pepe Deluxé came back in 2007 with
Spare Time Machine, a tripped-out, psychedelic masterpiece that didn't really fit in any category anymore. So to say we were expecting this new album is no exaggeration, and this is indeed a new, in-your-face, kind of eccentric thing. From bizarre pop to 60's psychedelic rock, from science-fiction to metaphysics, from heavy drums to pastoral folk, this is an intense piece of music excellence that won't fit in the big beat/future jazz niche the band used to blend in. Favorite tracks include the prog-rock-ish
Queenswave, the big-beatlesy
A Night And A Day, the trip-hop ballad
My Flaming Thirst and the ravaging Queen-on-peyote
The Storm. Already a contender for the best albums of the year selection!
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