"L'oeil au centre de l'oeil" distils four decades of avant-garde experimentation by La STPO (La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux / The Shy Society At The Bird Parade) into a collection where tumultuous rhythms, surrealist poetry, and unrestrained instrumentation converge.

The structures mirror the disjointed vividness of dreams, mapping an abstract and ever-changing sonic landscape; a whirlwind of meticulously orchestrated chaos. Brief but densely orchestrated pieces are woven from electric guitars, xylophones, brass, woodwinds, metallic percussion, with wildly inventive vocal deliveries that blur the lines between music and theatre.

Echoes of Etron Fou Leloublan, Albert Marcoeur, and Rock In Opposition's broader legacy animate the album's backbone, as do traces of This Heat, The Residents, and King Crimson, all filtered through La STPO's prism of sharp theatricality and "dadaized" rock.

"L'oeil au centre de l'oeil bristles" with anxiety: structures stretch and contract, vocals morph from whispered incantations to full-throated exclamations, and tension mounts only to dissipate in unexpected directions. Original, irreverent, and ceaselessly curious about the outer limits of musical narration - an ever-changing tapestry of surrealist sound and dream logic.

Digipak.