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Rougge: Monochrome

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Artist: Rougge (@)
Title: Monochrome
Format: CD
Label: self-released
Rated: * * * * *
The resemblance between French chantler and composer Rougge and Radiohead's voice Thom Yorke is not only limited to their voice and their stroke on piano keys (listen to "Fragment 13" for instance in order to find similarities), but also facial... Rougge's obscure sensitivity brings the listener close to the melancholic raptures of Anthony and The Johnsons, who are musically mirrored on the uproaring grace of Fragment 47, and his howling glossolalia to Jonsi Birgisson (the voice of Sigur Ros), but besides possible matching, its second album "Monochrome" emphasizes the beauty of his ethereal darkness and is other than lamentably lacklustre. The most heart-rending moments evoked by his highest peaks could let you imagine that some prankster or Rougge himself his some pointed thorns under the black faux leather of his piano stool, but I'm pretty sure many listeners will get immediately captivated by the dialogue between his voice and his piano, which didn't get disfigured by Melanie Pernet's violin, Anais Jansen's violin and Stephanie Bertrand's cello on the bonus track "Fragment 22", particularly when they both sound like bleeding honey.

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