French noiseniks Love Sex Machine unleash third full-length album »Trve«; out today via Pelagic Records!
Lille, France based sludge/noise-rock quartet Love Sex Machine presents their third full-length album, »Trve«, which was just released this Friday, April 12th, 2024 via Pelagic Records.
Tracklist:
01. Fucking Snakes
02. Test26
03. Trapped For Life
04. Body Probe
05. Canopy
06. Broken Code
07. Carbonic Beast
08. Autism Factor
09. Hollywood Story
10. Mask
Courtesy of Pelagic Records:
“»Trve« is a hopeless record whose anger develops less towards blind rage and more towards smoldering anger. Eight years of waiting since its predecessor »Asexual Anger« were worth it.” — Metal Hammer
“How much hate, how much anger, how much pain and bitterness do you want? Love Sex Machine don’t even ask politely. On their third album, the dirt of existence is completely beaten into the soul.” — Visions
“»Trve« is an intense, noisy, enveloping and otherworldly listening experience. Not that many aliens drop from the sky sounding quite like this one.” — Ghost Cult
“Resplendent in spectral auras that drip with the warm blood of its enemies, »Trve« is both sophisticated and savage” — Wonderbox Metal
Lille-based noise-rock stalwarts Love Sex Machine have released »Trve«, their third full-length album and first new music in eight years, via Berlin’s Pelagic Records.
Filthy sludge metal riffs offset by down-tempo, post-metal grooves and a fiendish sense of lyrical humour, »Trve« is 10 long-awaited tracks of revitalised righteous indignation, wry social commentary and, of course, unspeakably disgusting heaviness.
Photo by Frédéric Pecqueur
All this, however, is not to say that Love Sex Machine don’t take their craft seriously. From the outset, the album is testament to the band’s decade of experience as idiosyncratic veterans of the European sludge scene. The intervening years have seen the French four-piece trim the fat from their bones to leave only a muscular, beating heart of hypnotic riffs that bore their way directly into your brain.
As such, even by Love Sex Machine’s standards, penultimate album track »Hollywood Story« is intense; with searing guitarwork and fearsome frontman Yves’ acerbic angst all boiled down into one continuous, gloriously self-destructive breakdown. It’s not all doom and gloom however, as, in a first for Love Sex Machine, »Hollywood Story« also features fleeting vocal harmonies that lift you for the briefest moment before the next wave of nihilistic sludge forces you right back down to your knees.
Whilst the band have never sounded more abrasive, there is also an intriguing, refined and undeniably pop edge to »Trve« that adds a new element to this musical confrontation in which Love Sex Machine thrive. Atmospheric intros, extraneous refrains and eerie, instrumental outros might all be classic hallmarks of heavy music but you’ll find none of that here. Most tracks on »Trve« clock in at around three minutes and feature a rush of high-octane, black metal riffs played in an unsettlingly optimistic major key and synth motifs that verge on the defiantly triumphant.
Collaboratively recorded by the band themselves, engineer/studio owner Frédéric Pecqueur and producer Sanford Parker (EyeHateGod, Yob, Harm’s Way), »Trve« is a record defined by embracing the responsibilities of fatherhood as the world teeters on the brink of collapse. Whilst the riffs and refrains are steadfast, resolute and relentless, the lyrics for the album were written collectively by the band; constantly tweaked, forgotten and rewritten in order to capture the cumulative chaos of the intervening years.
An unashamedly monstrous offering, »Trve« is Love Sex Machine springing a trap eight ugly years in the making, but one that’ll at least keep us strung up between a rock and a hard place so we can appreciate the view of the oncoming apocalypse.
»Trve« is out now, via Pelagic Records.
Love Sex Machine’s Yves on »Hollywood Story«: “Ever wondered why people would drink piss in a corporate office? Now you know.”
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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well