The Limiñanas “Faded”

sfilzen — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:14:32 +0000

The Limiñanas “Faded” 2025. Limited edition red vinyl, Berreto Music/Because Music Records. Sultry psychedelic garage rock from France, chock full of collaborations including two tracks with Jon Spencer. I must have been one of the very first people to preorder it as I also received a limited to 100 7″ single. Faded is something like their 10th release since their 2010 debut. The Limiñanas remain soooo cool and their latest LP does not disappoint: it’s slinky and shimmery plus the multitude of musicians brings an excellent variety to the album. Of course my top tracks are the two Spencer songs: the laser-tinged “Space Baby” (classic Spencer yelps, growls, “Yeahs!” and silliness: “I’m floating in that tin can…”) and “Degenerate Star.” I’m also a big fan of “Prisoner of Beauty” featuring Bobby Gillespie (The Jesus & Mary Chain, Primal Scream) and the jangly Bowie-esque “Shout” featuring Rove (aka Timothée Régnier). And while my rudimentary high school level French doesn’t help much with parsing the lyrics, I also really love the French-lyric’d collaborations: “J’adore le Monde” with French singer/composer Bertrand Belin and the sexy, whispery “Catherine” sung by French singer Anna Jean (whom Discogs tells me is daughter of Nobel-prize awarded author J.M.G. Le Clezio). The Limiñanas-only tracks are pretty damn good too, especially their rendition of the classic r&b song by Richard Berry, then garage rock song popularized by the Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (and apparently the world’s most recorded rock song) that The Limiñanas somehow made luxuriously seductive – singing it in French helped – as well as the hypnotically buzzy “Autour de Chez Moi” which features both Lionel and Marie Limiñana on back-and-forth conversational vocals (though I have no clue what they’re chatting about).

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The Limiñanas “Shadow People”

sfilzen — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:06:03 +0000

The Limiñanas “Shadow People” 2018. Because Music records. Neo-psychedelia from France. Shadow People is the Limiñanas’ sixth LP (I think we have at least three or four of their other releases) and it retains their sound that can be briefly summarized as The Velvet Underground meets The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Black Angels. Think long droning, trippy melodies in minor, atmospheric soaring rhythms, sometimes in English, sometimes in French. “Istanbul is Sleepy” is Velvet Underground gone a bit brilliantly goth. The title track, “Shadow People” is glorious, a hazy shoe-gazey psychedelic trip. “Dimanche” – sung in rich, echoey French which my shakey adolescent French studies doesn’t quite translate (I think he says “J’adore” at one point, also “vie” so I’m thinking it’s something about loving life) – is heavy on tambourine punctuation and exotic guitar. “The Gift” sounds positively 80′s new wave (not a bad thing at all!), the guitar hook calling to mind Modern English’s “Melt With You.” “Motorizzati Marie” has a crazed spaghetti western flavor put to a fist-pounding beat and piano while “Pink Flamingos” is 60′s flower child saucer-eyed sweetness that segues into the heavy, dark “Trois Bancs.”

I like Allmusic’s overall summary of this latest Limiñanas release: Nothing too shocking, but also nothing to give lovers of their sound any pause or worries that, after releasing so many records in a short time frame, they might start phoning it in. The Limiñanas sound like they’re too cool and nonchalant to even have a phone, much less use one to make a less than great record.

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