Les Fantômes du Jour

Les Fantômes du Jour (The daytime spectres) from Nantes,
France, appear in 2020 in this form, but are well and truly made of
flesh and blood, wandering among the sinuous paths of under-
ground rock for roughly two decades.
Their aim is not to frighten
people, but to show off a multi-faceted rock that is fueled as much by
'90s progressive metal as it is by edgy hardcore in the vein of Envy
or The Mars Volta.
A nonchalant, experimental musical approach,
already serenely in place on an untitled debut EP. In other words,
sound substance that can be touched and vice versa without falling
through.
The Album
Their search for their own identity takes them to the edge of the
cerebral and the sensitive.
They record and re-record, often losing
themselves in the process, in order to find this moment of equili-
brium.
Drums and some of the bass were recorded at Le Batiskaf studio,
the lead guitars at Brown Bear Rec and the rest at their La Maison
studio.
On this debut album, they weave compositions that are sometimes
narrative, with a subtle ambience and wobbly metrics (Arguments I,
II and III , Situations II, Gamins), and sometimes more direct and
cathartic, even tinged with irony (Jacqueline, Madame F).
Les Fantômes du Jour have a bad taste, they spread too much
and do too much.
Too many parts, too much vibrato in the voice, too many double bass drums, too many pedals, too much noise, too
much fury, too much emphasis, too much confidence and too many
doubts.
Humaner than human.