Customer Reviews

Trabendo

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Confirming my review of Zig Zague, and seeing that they could no longer keep the show running without drug-addict suicide Helno (by now putrified beneath the soil of Cimetière de Pantin) LNV changed their sound to reflect an incoming trend to which I credit and commend the French for taking the lead and making great improvements: Electronica. However this is a first effort, and although a more digestible album than Zig Zague, not destined to be played in your car or home more than a couple of times. A couple of salvageable tracks here: Easy Girls among them, but no classic CD. For collectors mainly. I just wish they would have released this album under a new band name rather than to keep the old one. it is misleading to fools like me who expected a better album than Zig Zague and thought that at last, another Mlah! - after they got the toxic tracks out of their system. Listenable, but disposable.

Trabendo is very different from the classic LNV cds. But that doesn't make it bad. It's a very dark and brooding recording but great in it's electronica.

When I saw the average customer review was 1 star I had to chime in. The other reviewer is correct that Trabendo is a shift for LNV from French to electronic, but it's also such an effective transition that stands as one of the best international albums of the 90s. The sound is dense and deep, with hard, assured rhythms counterpointed with crude, clever lyrics that create a brilliant juxtaposition throughout. Standouts include tracks 1,5,8, and especially the masterpiece Ce Pays.