Review
Crushing weight and spacious melodic clarity refuse to cancel each other out on Made Flesh, locking heavy post-hardcore grit and expansive alt-rock drift into a single, tightly coiled frame. Rather than smothering the songwriting beneath impenetrable walls of fuzz, the French quartet strips away clutter to let unadorned basslines and clean vocal melodies command the center, allowing distortion to surge around the perimeter as structural punctuation rather than background filler.
The rhythm section dictates that economy: natural, room-resonant drumming locks with austere synthesizer pads, while guitars alternate between sparse, echoing arpeggios and blunt, saturated downstrokes. "Above My Head" upends familiar dynamic shifts by launching with an assertive riff before dropping immediately into shadowy, subdued verses, while "Oblivious" intentionally downshifts its tempo right at the hook. By the time "Cry" winds down into siren-like feedback and shoegaze gloom, the record demonstrates how deliberate dynamic restraint and sharp pacing hit far harder than relentless volume.
