Author: WD-40

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 03-03-2008

Details: Amazon.ca After a rather playful debut, the group WD-40 demonstrates in Aux frontières de l'asphalte that they are not just there for fun. From the outset, the title song lays the foundations of a singular and coherent universe: its heavy and haunting rhythm suggests an irresistible march forward, tormented by the roar of a harmonica (that of director Éric Goulet, of Les Chiens) . The leader Alex Jones precisely causes trips to an impossible Far West “where the cement grows”. It must be said that before entering the studio, the Saguenay rockers plunged into the country pot of pioneer Marcel Martel. They drew an obvious interest from it for the acoustic thing (we strum the six-string guitar in nearly half of the pieces) and a renewed imagination, where we come across a squaw from Amos, an aspiring cowboy and how of (more or less) magnificent losers. Far from dissipating the punk spirit of WD-40 (reaffirmed, rather noisily thank you, in “Tout pour le rock” and in the backfiring “Un char”), this country incursion is above all a reminder that the two genres have a lot in common. Starting with the sincerity, sometimes melancholic, sometimes angry, which fuels this solid second album. --Frederic Murphy

UPC: 619061121328

EAN: 0619061121328

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood