Le Combat Occulté

by La STPO

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	1.	Avant 05:09
	2.	Prélude 01:06
	3.	Techniques Explositionnistes 01:03
	4.	L'Explositionniste 04:28
	5.	Ici Mes Amis 03:32
	6.	Arménie 03:29
	7.	Bebalanbébant 07:11
	8.	Le Bris Agentreur 01:01
	9.	Corsaires de Nerf 01:04
	10.	Equilibre 01:05
	11.	Dada Max Stellt Loplop Vor 03:11
	12.	Markale 2 (live 1998) 02:21
	13.	Les Barbares 05:11
	14.	Thousand Days 01:31
	15.	Un 07:42
	16.	Shy Society At The Bird Parade 01:26
	17.	El Bolero 03:04
	18.	Dis Moi Que... 01:05
	19.	...J'attends La Pluie 02:14
	20.	El Fin 03:23
	21.	Idol 01:01
	22.	Ebauche 01:55

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Label Info : It's strange to think that a score of years ago the world was just emerging from the last of its new wave haze, only to enter a brave new era of over produced, digitally recorded schlock. La STPO was borne into this miasma of mediocrity with knives out. They have remained bastions of outré ever since their bloodied birth. Vive La STPO! To celebrate two decades of one of the finest, most fractured & indefatigable European avant post punk bands, BlRR has nailed together this 22 track retrospective of 7300 days in the life of La STPO. & rather than trying to shape this into some sort of "best of" or "greatest hits," BlRR & La STPO have done the reverse by leaning more heavily in on the group's more exploratory moments. This also makes for a better album that, in its own skewed way, fits together as if all recorded in the same session. As presented here, La STPO are truly Rock In Opposition. Unlike their Zeuhl spewing forbears, however, STPO are not trying to fuse jazz & rock. Their rock is in opposition of all things safely established, including Rock In Opposition. Jagged & bleated arrangements with familiar rock instrumentation clash to form screaming, dada-pregnant, contorted punk concertos. Oddly timed & full of changes, this is music to fall down escalators to. Sometimes this is music to lay at the bottom of escalators to. Just as your fingers begin to snap, STPO leaps off the page into a droning menace. A cadence of broken buzzsaw guitar hums ejaculate into soft & staggering staccato strings. La STPO's propensity for quiet tension gives the tumult of their caterwauls that much more weight. The vocalist is as likely to coo & chirp as he is to chant & caw. Reeds, vibes & trumpets walk freely with the rest, making this as dynamic & interesting a record as one could hope for in this hopelessly metering post rock era. Any group that can take The Ex to task & come out singing an aria afterwards is certainly worth falling down an escalator for.

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released February 5, 2021

A collection of alternate, unreleased, rare & live tracks.
Tracks 1-11 originally recorded 1992-1993.
Tracks 13-22 originally recorded 1984-1989.

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