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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

DIONYSOS


DIONYSOS
HAPPENING SONGS (1996)
320 KBPS

After a few demos and EPs, this was the true begining of one of the most valuable candidates to Noir Désir succession as leader of the french rock scene. Happening songs was an autoproduction that was released in 1996 and went quite unnoticed except for those aquainted with the French underground rock scene and people around their hometown of Valence. One will find here all the charm and "quirkiness" the band later developped with a bit more naivety. "Wet" later became the first hit of Dionysos, an indie one that is, one that will allow them to record their second album "Haïku" (1999) in the United States and was re-recorded to appear on their 1998 EP "The Sun is blue like the eggs in Winter". The raw and direct sound has to be the most attracting aspect of this debut album, it shows us a true picture of how Dionysos really sounded like in their early career both as a live band and a studio act. If you like your indie rock to be pop inclined, just a little lo-fi, with funny yet smart melodies and just the right amount of silliness, "Happening Songs" will certainly please you. A little over ten years after it was released, it still puts a smile on my face and makes me sing along to Mr. Malzieu's peculiar songs.

1. Wet
2. No Sense Words Harmony
3. Polar Girl
4. Can I?
5. Everything
6. Children Of My Walk
7. Flying Cake
8. Still Bleeding
9. New Eye Blues
10. Socks Tears
11. Screamin' Like An Egg
12. Sad Smiling F…
13. Wet Folk + Here Comes The Sun

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