Le Corbeau

Iv - Spider Bridge Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau is the brainchild of Oystein Sandsdalen, former guitarist of the Norwegian band Serana Maneesh. Since his self titled debut album in 2008, Le Corbeau has expanded to a frequently rotating collective of Oslo based indie musicians. Their indie-noir rock 'n roll sound bows to the vestiges of Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth's early years, Nick Cave's cloudy episodes and David Lynchian aesthetics. It's a mix of super-fuzzy pop-tracks, spooky garage rock, shoegaze atmospheres, creepy and hypnotic loops, impressionistic songs, occult lamentations, mystic poems, drony instrumentals, cult cinematic influences and lo-fi enthusiasm. With Sandsdalen's dark voice and approach, utter gloom is all around Le Corbeau's music, but the addition of dreamy female vocals and fuzzy guitar riffs also leads to a very laid-back and cool sound. Le Corbeau took a break after the third album (from 2011), but is now back with not only their new fourth album, but with a trilogy; 3 albums at once: "IV - Spider Bridge", "V - C's Theme" and "VI - Sun Creeps Up The Wall"! It contains extremely captivating and memorable stuff; "IV" is very unpolished, punky and noisy, "V" sounds very alive and lo-fi and "VI" can be described as their indie pop album with experimental though more lavished songs.