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""The Ropes" is Trank's second album which confirms his status as a rock outsider by offering us a formula between metal and cold wave."
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4/5
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For the past ten years, Trank has been rolling its hump all over Europe. The Franco-Swiss band has even managed to capture the attention of such mastodons such as Deep Purple, Anthrax, Disturbed or Papa Roach. If this patriarchy is flattering, it can in the long run prove fatal and in the event of a faux pas. Luckily we are not there yet and Trank has concentrated on what he does best by offering us his second album, "The Ropes".
The album opens with a suffocating but effective 'Shining' with its unifying chorus. It's as if the band slipped us their business card. A first distracted listening could suggest that the band wanted to make the powder speak to the detriment of any emotion. But Trank managed to bring some breathings in his opus. Immersed in black water, we see through the eddies a luminous force. This could explain the name of the band at the borders of musical genres: powerful, raging and metal oriented (the tank) but at the same time burning an intimate flame (the trance) that we could find in cold wave or gothic rock.
More or less, Trank is not going to deviate from this trajectory, sometimes making us regret a small lack of surprise. The intrepid listener in search of sensations will not be deprived of it, however. 'The Road' is a journey over the darker expanses of the world: 'The Ropes' is draped in a progressive color, 'Forever And A Day' puts its rage aside to focus on the atmosphere of regret that follows (or perhaps to prepare us for the flames of 'In Troubled Times').
Michel André Jouveaux is the spokesman of this intimate hell. His voice embraces the duality of the band's music. Mixed with rage, to the sound of the final cry of 'Take The Money And Run', it also knows how to be melancholic as on 'Undress To Kill', tinged with a strong nostalgic spirit. The album ends in apotheosis with the instrumental 'Refugee'. Wouldn't this be a clue to reveal Trank's new shape, atmospheric metal?
Trank may not have made the album of the year, the fault lies with its sometimes predictable formula. But listening to "The Ropes" is highly recommended for the open-minded listener who would like to cross the portal of melancholy and darkness. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Shining
02. Illustrated Girl
03. The Ropes
04. Undress to Kill
05. Forever and a Day
06. In Troubled Times
07. Again
08. Chrome
09. The Road
10. Take the Money and Run
11. Bend or Break
12. Refugee
LINEUP:
David Spatola: Basse
Johann Evanno: Batterie
Julien Boucq: Guitares
Michel André Jouveaux: Chant / Claviers
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