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Zero Absolu - Duration: 00:33:00
- Available from: 31/03/2025
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AOP RECORDS
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There are many ways and many reasons to start again from scratch. Provided that they exist, the restarts from scratch: however frustrating it can be retracing a road, or starting from the beginning on another path, the path already made is never completely removed. It leaves traces, experiences, memories that make the new itinerary something very different from those undertaken with nothing in your pocket and little knowledge of what the comparison with the outside means. The French Zéro Absolu, therefore, cannot be said to be an 'absolute zero' in this sense, although “the Saignée” is in all respects a restart album.
The Zéro Absolu are in fact a reincarnation of the Glaciation, or rather they are a Kintsugiwhich puts together the shards of a remarkable epic of splitting and quarrels. Trying to summarize: in 2015 the Glaciation put the then frontman rose Hreidmarr (formerly the voice of the anorexia nervosa and then of the very the CNK), whose personal and dependence problems on alcohol had become unsustainable for the rest of the band. In 2020, Hreidmarr recorded the Glaciazion brand, the intellectual property is registered and released a new album unbeknownst to the other musicians, making them pissed so much that it is difficult to explain “La Saignée” without clarifying that it contains a lot of resentment in the his comparisons. For those who understand French or for those who want to try their hand with Google Translate, the text of the title-track is very representative.
As for music, the Absolu zéro set themselves in a relative continuity with the glaciation, leaving aside the most blatantly black component of the previous “Sur Les Falaises de Marbre” (we will keep here only the original glaciation exits, avoiding the Gineprai in which Already some bands forces us), in favor of a development more oriented towards the post- and the atmospheric black.
Another element of breakage concerns the architecture of the album and therefore of the songs, limited to two episodes with an important minutage.
The first, “La Saignée”, is a suite of twenty minutes in which the influences of groups such as Alcest resound (moreover, on the guitar there is Este Saray, which accompanies Neige and partners on bass in the live) and Agallloc. The darkness evoked by the Absolu Zéro is volatile, fluid, light in its open and vibrant dynamism of exquisitely post-Black tones, with protagonists guitars left free to play with riffs and effects. The result is Catchy but does not Ruffiano, also thanks to the dramatic vocal performance of Jean-EMMANUEL 'Valnoir' Simoulin and the Drumming of RR (Regarde Les Hommes Tomber).
The song evolves naturally towards an epic and airy crescendo, crowned by the tenuous and precious detail of a delicate tan of Synth, and then cross the inevitable spoken interlude and flow into an ending that from the martial leak in the fantastic, with transformed sounds and the Powerful contrast between a guitar that touches the white noise and a melody almost as a music box.
The second act is always played on the contrasts, “The Temps Détruit Tout”: Synth's ethereal lights, embroidered with battery exploits and recited inserts, alternate with the shadows of a black metal of a clear matrix of the Alps. There is also no lack of in this trace with the most atmospheric and meditative intentions the opportunity to give space to some easy emotional riffs, which keeps attention high without scratching the introspective aura of the song. We come to the conclusion by sliding along a melancholy and gradually more dissonant tail, with the feeling of having shared an intense inner path, which immediately wants to repeat.
One last mention deserves the cover, which portrays the vinyls dissolved by the fire broke out in April 2024 of the former Helvete di Oslo: unrecognizable relics of a past that we can only leave us behind, while not disdaining the sweet and sour pleasure to bask in the sense of loss and nostalgia.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM