Amours propres

Amours propres is a striking document of a musician shedding his skin. Following the dissolution of the punk outfit Starshooter, Kent (Hervé Despesse) re-emerged in 1983 with a sound that was far more sophisticated, skeletal, and rhythmically adventurous. The album exists in the tension between the directness of rock and the spacious, experimental textures of dub and leftfield electronics. It feels like a late-night walk through a city that is both familiar and alienating, where the streetlights reflect off wet pavement and every shadow holds a bit of poetic residue.

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