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Excessive Visage

Excessive Visage is a melancholic ride through the cosmos, a hypnotizing female voice based on psychedelic jazz, hovering over mathy yet extremely lively rhythms – rock music with lots of drive and electronic wildness.

There’s a smokey, café jazz atmosphere to the melodies and vocal delivery in the music of Excessive Visage. It is married to complex musical materials reminiscent of math rock, and a punk intensity in its sonic character and performances. Sounds like a mish-mash? Well, in practice, it just sounds like a group of musicians doing what they do… a group of highly skilled and uncompromisingly creative musicians. There’s a distinct streak of darkness running through these sounds, an ominous and uneasy atmosphere, that sits well with the power and drama of the arrangements, but it is not allowed to dominate the music, or to determine its forms; Excessive Visage have a distinctive and identifiable sound, but they don’t adopt any set of formulae that could be abstracted to embody the lineaments of a genre. Instead they forge a language of their own, identifiably rock, and not forbiddingly avant-garde, but uniquely specific, and extremely powerful. Song-based electric guitar music doesn’t get much better than this.