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Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes review – teetering song-towers that never quite topple
Brilliant melodies, poetic lyrics and quick-change time signatures elevate this quirky jazz-pop release to a level all its own
Halfway through the Dr Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, our young protagonist bursts out of a dull cul-de-sac and into a Technicolor tent of music “where boom bands are playing”. André Sacalxot’s flute lines and sax solos chirrup and yearn throughout, and singer Ma Clément does much the same: frequently quizzical and gabbling, she gives a more lugubrious, gentle performance on Love Weapon to make it the album’s standout. Overall, it ends up somewhere between Julia Holter and Black Country, New Road ’s chamber-pop fantasias, Stereolab ’s quirkiest moments and the psych-funk symphonics of Rotary Connection – which is to say it’s actually in its very own peculiar corner of pop.
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