BAGUETTE – EXPENSIVE MOUSE

After their last album “Oh! Deu! Vre!” and two years of touring Europe, Graz-based duo Baguette will release their second album on Noise Appeal Records and prove that Noise Rock can grow up! After months of writing and producing, the band recorded their album in the summer of 2017. The location was an old mill in the South of Styria, at resident producer Bernd Heinrauch, who worked with bands like Melvins, Chicks On Speed, Mark Deutrom, Binder & Krieglstein, Die Buben im Pelz or Hella Comet. Eight brand new songs can be found on the second LP and the debut on Noise Appeal Records. “Expensive Mouse” drags intuitively on the bass’ sound, without making their edges feel less edgy. In fact, you realize that nothing gets smoother because of it. The guitar shakes, electrifies and turns. The drums at times sound adventurous or down to earth, but always agil. The vocals are a disappointed craving and flabbergasted calling. Baguette moves forward, trying new structures and find new space for weird elements like decorated key boards, creaking bass and pipes. Carefully chosen, the sample has unexpected, but relaxing accents, but without falling back on old kneeslappers. The title, “Expensive Mouse” doesn’t have to be understood to love it and its bizarre sound. If there’s a topic that sets the album, it’s the existential horrors that can be found in normal, everyday life, but a bit more catchy. You can try to make sense of our new, surreal world and Baguette is the perfect company for this trip.