Bukowski

After an album that served him as both catharsis and transition into a new era, bukowski is back, stronger than ever with Cold Lava. Return to basics or almost, because sticking to repeating an already proven recipe would have been too easy.

Cold Lava is above all the first album recorded by bukowski with his latest lineup, stabilized and complete for the past three years: Mathieu (guitar-vocals), Romain (drums), Clément (guitar) and Max (bass).

The latter actively participated in composition as well as lyric writing, fruit of a genuine collective work lasting nearly eighteen months.

To reconnect with a true organic sound and find themselves in the best conditions, the band called upon Francis Caste to produce this seventh album (the fourth he has created for Buko), leading to two months of hard work in the studio.

The objective was clear: record federated tracks which, once on stage, make the crowd's heads move. As Francis Caste sums it up: "Bukowski, it's an aircraft carrier on Canal St Martin".

If bukowski's universe still lies between stoner and hard rock, lifted by a good dose of groove, the band this time added more alternative and ambient sounds, with a flavor of Thrice, and to a lesser extent Thursday and Alexisonfire.

Buko remains Buko, but this evolution brings a breath of fresh air to an always intense and driven music. The tracks are shorter but varied, designed to make you move and dance, while remaining faithful to the most intoxicating of headbanging.

The album opens with "Headlights", super-charged rock, and offers titles like the melancholic mid-tempo "Cold Lava", the groovy "Neverending Fall", and the first single "Criminals", with its enormous entry riff and wall of guitars.

The album also welcomes Reuno from Lofofora on "Communication In Silence", bringing some biting lyrics in f