Description
Second full-length album from French psychedelic pop ensemble Dorian Pimpernel.
If their first album Allombon could be seen as the opening of a secret passage, this second record, Flowers Too, is something else entirely: no longer the discovery of a world, but its methodical exploration, its feverish mapping, its deepening down to the underground layers. At a time when contemporary psychedelia seems at a standstill, when ecstasy has lost its effect, when the vast territories of the imagination have been parcelled out, signposted, monetised - they keep digging. And deeper still.
The five members - the drummer fascinated by Antiquity, the part-time philosopher-songwriter, the polymorphous filmmaker-composer, the bassist-archivist possessed by records, the singer long secluded with his guitar - have not changed in nature. But their music has mutated. Denser. More coherent. More inhabited.
Still operating on the margins of the classic "group of friends starting a band" model, they pursue their strange project: moonshine pop - the nocturnal, lunatic, sometimes venomous reverse side of Californian sunshine pop.
Their influences are still present, but more deeply digested: the learned psychedelia of the '60s, the imagined bridges between Canterbury and Dusseldorf, haunted film scores, rare synthesizers and vintage guitars that populate their studio-cabinet of curiosities.
