Where bought? Got this from one of the band, presumably in Lille.
A disclaimer inasmuch as two of the band members are good friends and there's absolutely no way on earth I would be 'fair' about this record. Did you come here for fair?
My band embarked on our first tour in 2013. For six years we had been farting around, playing the pubs, being met with golf applause and total indifference. We'd received emails from 2010 but wrote them off as silly and fanciful. Finally, in 2012, I said as a kind of ante-up, 'ok, we will come and play if you book us a whole tour'. They did, so we had to follow on. We did, and six more tours have followed.
The people who did that were members of Berline 0.33, who also played our first two French shows in Lille and Paris. They were way tighter and in many respects braver than we were, but we were authentically English and had driven a bit further so we got a better response.
Sound-wise they remind me of something in the large Venn diagram where Shellac and Unwound and Circus Lupus might inhabit; sharp razory guitar, bass strung like electrical cables driving the energy, battering ram drums, and big portions of healthy space and silence.
The key difference is female vocals sung in a French accent; Emilie is an English teacher and her language skills are probably on a par with any English person I've met, and if this basic equation works for Savages then why can't it work for Berline 0.33? It's a good record, perhaps a bit mean-spirited in parts (not sure what the beef with Sweden was all about, I should ask next time we see each other!) but joyous in its creativity.
On our second or third tour Berline were meant to play with us, but they split very near to the show. I think the guitarist wasn't anybody's friend and went his own way, and the drummer was doing tons of things, and the bassist and singer split up as a couple. They were all very nice, but I don't think they're friends now.
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