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Malajube is a Canadian pop-rock quintet that in 2004 quietly impressed hungry listeners with their debut record Le Compte Complet and has drawn a wide amount of praise for their second album Trompe-l'Oeil, springing out of the already artistically rich local music scene, with their unique and original sound and now impress with their third album "Labyrinthes". « Malajube returns with an even more idiosyncratic, off-kilter pop masterpiece after 2006’s Trompe L’Oeil proved that Montreal’s francophone rock community was just as capable of cracking the worldwide marketplace as its anglo counterpart. Opening track "Ursuline" is a difficult-to-penetrate six-minute epic with sparse vocals. The tracks that follow continue to baffle and astound with unconventional structuring and pacing, long instrumental sections and a blending of musical styles that would seem ludicrous on paper. Album highlight "Casablanca" begins as a light tropical summer tune and then explodes with a guitar and choral chanting outro before it quickly segues into hard rocking album centrepiece "333." The ’60s psychedelic pop of "Luna" is the closest the LP gets to something single-friendly, but Labyrinthes is at its best when Malajube play it by ear and explore lush musical panoramas with little regard for hooks or conventions.» (Erik Leijon, CHARTattack) NEW EUROPEAN TOURDATES ANNOUNCED! MALAJUBE » Trompe-L'oeil « |
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