Breaking up the concrete

Dear reader: First, let me state that the hardest bands to write about are the ones you love the most (all you really have to say is, stop reading and listen to this!), and Pays P. is a band I really love. Second, obligatory notes on band history: Laura Boullic (lyrics/vocals), Lucas Valero (guitar) and Pablo Valero (drums) got together in 2015 in Paris, France. Four years, a self-titled demo / unofficial debut and a lot of concerts later, they recorded their official debut album in Brooklyn, New York, in October 2019, before supporting Big Thief on their European tour in early 2020. Then the pandemic arrived, stopping or slowing down a lot of things; and so it wasn’t until August this year that Ça v aller finally was released on Peculiar Works Records, the label of Sohrab Habibion and Michael Jaworski (Savak). Those two also did the recording and mixing, and did a perfect job transporting the band’s strong identity and live energy to record. Weiterlesen