Name: Observations and Descriptions
Brand: Honey For Petzi

Bonus disc

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Catalogue number

TWOGTL932

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

7640186551427

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

TWOGTL93LP

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black

With CD Version.

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7640186551380

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Honey For Petzi 

Genre GB

Post Rock

Label GB

Two Gentlemen

Honey for Petzi returns. (A little) more than a decade after the last album of the trio from Western Switzerland (General Thoughts and Tastes, 2011), let’s celebrate today the release, by Two Gentlemen again, of Observations + Descriptions, featuring twelve tracks of frank, agile and evolving emotions – as if cut with a sharp and subtle knife. The trio, consisting of Sami Benhadj Djilali (guitar and vocals), Philippe Oberson (bass and vocals) and Christian Pahud (drums and vocals), emerged in Lausanne at the end of the 20th century. At the time, the post-rock scene was blooming and Honey for Petzi added its own corolla with their geometric music, featuring rhythmic phrasings that highlight weak beats, pitfalls and syncopations, a gripping sound and unexpected harmonic progressions. This aesthetic was to undergo several mutations in the course of the band’s outstanding records – in particular Heal All Monsters (produced by Steve Albini, no less) and Nicholson (2003), both on Two Gentlemen. At the end of last year, Honey for Petzi released a new track, Écoute: the odd time signatures that were the hallmark of the trio’s previous work were present but augmented by a form of joy, a liberating impulse that had not been heard before – a precision mechanism, once again, but underpinning an emotional statement. Grammatically, Écoute (“Listen”) could be included in two categories: as a noun (the action of listening) but perhaps also as an imperative – implying: this and what’s about to follow.

Observations and Descriptions

Music GB