French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the name Igorrr for twenty years now, yet each new record still resounds with a startling freshness and radical vitality. Steadfastly unclassifiable fifth album Amen maintains this impact, blindsiding the listener with a new set of exploratory curveballs and continuing to surprise and unnerve even the most attuned enthusiast.

 

"This album is definitely darker than its predecessors, it has such a very weighty and solemn vibe that has never been reached before in Igorrr," explains Gautier. "The fact that I recorded a real choir in a church helped this a lot, but above all there has been very long and meticulous work on the sound and the choice of instruments, and deep experimental research to create a unique sound design. Of course, because it’s an Igorrr album, there are some more colorful tracks, like Blastbeat Falafel, ADHD etc…they contrast very much with the ambient heaviness. I need tracks like these on an album, it helps to really get through it fully focused, like a shot of limoncello before the next meal."

 

Gautier has always made clear that Igorrr is as much about the influence of Bach and Chopin as it is about Cannibal Corpse, Aphex Twin and Meshuggah.

 

Tracklist:

01 Daemoni

02 Headbutt

03 Limbo

04 Blastbeat Falafel (feat. Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle))

05 ADHD

06 2020

07 Mustard Mucous (feat. Scott Ian (Anthrax, Mr. Bungle))

08 Infestis

09 Ancient Sun

10 Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism

11 Étude n°120

12 Silence