crème solaire: Sun Lotion Versus Cement

Entitled “Cemento” (“concrete” in Italian), the third album from Fribourg-based elektro-punks crème solaire, is an impassioned rallying-cry for the flowers to push through the concrete of the modern urban world. It is available now from Irascible Records. Using the image of a concreted-over cityscape as a starting point for an exploration of the dichotomy between convention and human individuality, norms and resistance, “Cemento” could be described as a concept album. It is also an exuberant celebration of rhythms you cannot help but dance to.

Blessed with one of the more baffling band names around, Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocalist Rebecca Solari call their music “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”. Stoll previously played with a metal band, Unexisting Structures, a rap group, Lélents, a guitar/vocal duo called Lower Board, another band, Gjon’s Tears, and his own solo project, Scalpel. Solari first made a name for herself with the female five-piece, Femme Feuillage. Together, they sound like none of these and yet all of them.

crème solaire
Irascible Records