SKIP THE USE: Human Disorder (ROCK): review / opinion to read on Music Waves

Skip The Use is a band that stands out in the French rock scene. This particular place, it owes it to its outstanding and festive stage energy but also to its capacity to assimilate several styles to amalgamate them with its rock base. Alas, like many of its colleagues, the band was forced to go dormant, without any concerts for two years.

The uncertainties linked to this situation could have been fatal for the band for whom the stage is almost something vital. Skip The Use then threw itself into work to rekindle the flame. The result is the aptly named "Human Disorder". While the previous record "Past And Future" offered eighties fragrances, the new album keeps some of them while bringing some novelties and a saving variety.

Skip The Use has become a chameleon and has no equal in coloring his rock with different aspects while being of a coherence that forces the respect. This album can almost be seen as a concept album starting with the falsely festive 'Down' with almost contained energy until the final track ('Rise') which is soothing and luminous (with Anthea, Matt's wife, for a moving duet). In the meantime, the band distills tracks with a dynamism that has lost none of its brightness despite the situation. Without falling into fusion, Skip The Use adorns its compositions with different styles that enrich its purpose with brilliance: 'Slaughter' is both dark and energetic indus' a la Nine Inch Nails, 'Sevensins' has an explosive alternative rock aspect, 'Make It Bad' explores a pop and R'n'B terrain hitherto not very developed by the band, 'Til The End' ventures somewhat into modern metal with its devastating riffs.

But where the band is strong is by revealing a facet that we only knew a little in their compositions. Skip The Use tries to provoke a personal emotion in tracks where Mat reveals himself a little bit with nostalgia (the irresistible 'Fou Ou Misérable', organic, and 'Sable d'Or' more electronic with a strong text). The lyrics declaimed in french undeniably bring a new breath and almost sentimental. Skip The Use also uses more electronic ('The One Two' also with Anthea or 'Ellipse'). This aspect serves the compositions by bringing contrast between the coldness of the machines and the deeply organic character of the talented musicians.

"Human Disorder" has a deeply human aspect both in the energy it tries to provoke but also in the emotions the band wants to convey, more touching and striking. Skip The Use takes a new step forward while maintaining its authenticity where others would have long since lost their way. - Official website

SKIP THE USE

HUMAN DISORDER

AUTRE LABEL

ROCK