PORTRON PORTRON LOPEZ - Ice Cream Soufi LP (colour vinyl)

Includes bonus CD. Feels like a silk-screened sleeve.

Highly recommended.

Coming on like a mutation of all the wild and tempered instrumentation of the Dirty Three in full flow, the ambling and meandering yet intense desert rock of Scenic via a long and delightful trawl around the mountain tops of the Mediterranean coastline—evocative and exhilarating music that pulls you along for the ride!! Although an instrumental record, this album is as joyous as some of the most rambunctious and rowdy pop albums you’re ever likely to hear.

Portron Portron Lopez don’t do concepts. There are no great discussions about where they should pull their influences from, or pre-planning about how to structure studio work. The Parisian-formed trio exist in spontaneity, a creative co-habitancy that relies on feel and groove—as evidenced on their three studio albums to-date. Exploratory odysseys that bely the potential pitfalls an improvisational-minded group might fall into during the recording process, they’ve moved between shades of psychedelia and Middle Eastern-inflected drones as well as more electronic and club-based touchstones, doing so in a way that feels effortlessly free.

For fans of 75 Dollar Bill, Mdou Moctar, Dirty Three, Scenic, Captain Beefheart, Music Ethiopiques.