Last Updated 11/13/2024 07:22 PM EST
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$15.50
$15.50
IN STOCK
01. FRUSTRATION - Dreams, Laws, Rights And Duties
Your browser does not support the audio element.
02. FRUSTRATION - Just Wanna Hide
Your browser does not support the audio element.
03. FRUSTRATION - Excess
Your browser does not support the audio element.
04. FRUSTRATION - Empires Of Shame
Your browser does not support the audio element.
05. FRUSTRATION - Arrows Of Arrogance
Your browser does not support the audio element.
06. FRUSTRATION - Mother Earth In Rags
Your browser does not support the audio element.
07. FRUSTRATION - Cause You Ran Away
Your browser does not support the audio element.
08. FRUSTRATION - Even With The Pills
Your browser does not support the audio element.
09. FRUSTRATION - Minimal Wife
Your browser does not support the audio element.
10. FRUSTRATION - No Place
Your browser does not support the audio element.
ARTIST
FRUSTRATION
TITLE
Empires Of Shame
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BORN BAD RECORDS
CATALOG #
BORNBAD 087LP
BORNBAD 087LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2016
LP version. Includes download code.
Frustration
, the caring big brothers of the French indie scene, are closely intertwined with Born Bad's rise to fame. Their pathway in itself is symbolic: hailing from the garage closed circuit from the '90s, they gave up the tattoos and brilliantine rock to try something different - at the crossroads of punk and cold wave, of
Métal Urbain
,
Killing Joke
and
Joy Division
. The five fellows, not particularly renowned for their technical skills, found themselves invested with a peculiar grace, becoming avant-gardist just as they were entering their forties, and showing the way to a whole generation of bands that suddenly became aware that it was possible.
Empires Of Shames
is the third album by Frustration. They crushed mountain chains on
Relax
(BORNBAD 008LP, 2008), uncovered new continents and rainforests with
Uncivilized
(BORNBAD 046CD/LP, 2012), so it's only logical they now project to terraform Mars planet with this album that celebrates their return to a cold hostility that echoes the one of punks going by the name of a Polish capital city (
Warsaw
). "Dreams, Law, Rights And Duties", "Just Wanna Hide" and "Excess" are punches in the knees as signs of welcome from
Fabrice
, whose voice wanders from a
Curtis
-like spleen to a cockney spit. If "Arrows Of Love" sounds like the album's break, this mesmerizing
Smiths
-like ballad turns into a proletarian anthem, one of the peaks on the album. "Mother Earth In Rags" will undoubtedly be a hit, given its harangue as baroque and dramatic as a speech from
Lenin
; "Cause You Runaway" shows that the lads have also listened to
James Murphy
; and "No Place" is a synth-punk-noise gem that will generate one hell of a pogo at the end of their next concert. Frustration is now this fully grown-up lion that has no intention of ending up as a bedside rug. This is the only reason why we agree to give in to music, this intrusive thing that never asks for our advice. The rest is just a background noise of conceited babbling saturating the feed of our souls.
Other releases on BORN BAD RECORDS
Other releases by FRUSTRATION