marcel

Since 2021, Belgian noisy post-punk band marcel has managed to offer undemanding yet generous music, exactly halfway between Dead Kennedys and Talk Talk, Nina Hagen and Jacques Dutronc, with a severe penchant for poetic-horrific lyrics about the strangeness of earthly existence. They'll appeal to your anarchist granny as well as your 5-year-old nephew who thinks he's right-wing, while 76% of adults who've seen them live claim to have felt a tingly, stinging joy, according to the Eurobarometer.

One day, they'll record an album of free jazz or bossa nova in Walloon. But for the time being, they excel in a bastardised, experimental, unorthodox form of punk, un-tranquil and proud as a peacock that has lost all its feathers from bellowing baselessly all over the village.

Their latest album was produced and mixed by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls,...) and will be released by Luik Records and Géographie Records in March 2025. What else is there to say? Euaaaahhh!!!!