Monstre

Philippe Lambert of Montreal has generated one or more CD beneath the music group name of Monstre, France for “monster.” He shouldn’t be baffled with an ensemble in the French community of Brest that also phone calls itself Monstre, all section of a global pileup of monstrous personal references in rock and roll & move that threaten to overshadow every other ethnic context, nearly as good monsters should. Lambert’s task, unlike the French Monstre, appears to be a one-man project. Both groupings fiddle with consumer electronics, perhaps a necessity if you are wanting to frighten a rock and roll audience. If it’s an agreeable monster that’s getting alluded to, then your instrumental reference of preference within this genre would need to be guitar, a safe place embraced with the Brest Monstre but evidently overlooked by Lambert, who rather employs primarily voice-based noises. This material is normally electronically manipulated, coupled with drum machine and sampler spices, and finally refined into platters of pure sound music, jams inspired by ethnic designs, psychedelic rock and roll, and digital pop. Lambert’s affects consist of avant-garde Japanese rock and roll groups like the Boredoms.