"Martial, furious, MATA HARI is expected to make a splash in 2020." Quite some praise from Rolling Stone magazine for the band that I'm featuring today but do you know what? They may just be right...
MATA HARI formed in 2016 in Montpellier and see regular line up Paul Gauloise (bass/keyboard/ singer), Paul Maumy (drums) & Teo Blanc (guitar/singer) joined on their debut ep by Jonathan (singer/guitar) and Jack Pernet (drums). The ep's titled Building Site and it's 5 impressive cuts of tasty post-punk. I notice the press release is throwing around names like Joy Division, The Stooges and Idles and when you're being placed in such esteemed company you better be good. Fortunately they are. Just don't expect them to sound anything like those bands as these young Frenchmen have carved out a sound of their own. You can get more info on them here : https://www.facebook.com/page.matahari/
This is the lead track, an industrial opening leads into an angular attack of sharp guitars (or would that sound better as a sharp attack of angular guitars?) and lyrics about spending hours round town, walking down empty streets, waiting for tomorrow, there's no way out, no rescue. An allegory? I think you'll be very impressed. It's called Factory...
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