C.I.A. Debutante

C.I.A. Debutante

Down, Willow

Siltbreeze

With their 3rd vinyl long player for Siltbreeze, CIA Debutante have successfully out-flanked those critics who have been forever chattering, "will they ever be as big as Artery?" To paraphrase Fred Ward in Tremors; "Artery? Hell, Clock DVA!" All bristling aside, such questions & answers don't carry much weight these days. Such is the language of pettifoggers. And who's got time for them? We're trying to sell records here. Down,Willow sees our heroes Paul & Nathan attaining S.T.A.S. (Superior Third Album Status), honing in with a top gloss of new & proto experimental, post-punk, recitation & vibe. Imagine fusing The Fall's Grotesque & Morton Subotnick's Sidewinder into a sole entity? Sure, there's going to be lots of sparks, flash fires, smoke of all colors + bickering, but from this vantage, what a light show! There's even some shredding on here that sounds like they may have lit this fucker with Martin Kippenberger's copy of Guitar Hero. Please take it off, it's too good! If you've been paying attention to the bands countless tape efforts, or just their recent vinyl outings, there's no denying the Mach thunder Down, Willow is gonna roll across thine cranium. And should this be your introduction to the band, feel free to pretend none of the aforementioned bullshit matters. And welcome, adventurous new listener!

C.I.A. Debutante

The Punch / The Garden

Digital Regress

Los Debutantes are back with their latest prophesying of our collective future, present, past, on the mightiest format, seven inch disk. Two fresh tracks of high order indulging Burroughs-esque ramblings streaming consciousness, doom-saying over staggered drums, lines of electronic pulsing, feedback buzz. All picking up right where their last LP Dust on Siltbreeze Records left off, and pushing the message to the front of the queue. If you know, you know.

C.I.A. Debutante

Music For Small Rooms

Ever / Never

***Tiptoeing in, stealth-like, CIA Debutante’s Music For Small Rooms 12” on Ever/Never Records tempts the listener with secrets and their inevitable spilling out into the open. Over the course of several releases, the France-based duo has shown a real gift for delving into the particulars of paranoia, seeding their songs with threats disguised as hooks. On its perfectly succinct new EP, CIA Debutante refines this method, as each of the six tracks plays like dystopian theme songs for closed-circuit television dramas. From the gradually increasing disquiet of “Nuclear Holiday” to the full-on terror of “The Face” (“There’s a blank spot/where the face should be”), CIA Debutante are well-versed in navigating the eternal eddies of existential doubt. With molten electronics accompanying a resigned vocal, “Sinkhole” really does feel like the planet is opening up beneath you, but perhaps you don’t mind as much as you’d have expected. “Faulty Appliances” is a kitchen sink nightmare and even elicits a couple chuckles as it wraps up the leftovers. If you find yourself routinely menaced by everyday objects, then you are primed and ready for the sounds that CIA Debutante pipes into Music For Small Rooms.

C.I.A. Debutante

Dust

Siltbreeze

“Dust is the second vinyl outing from Nathan Roche & Paul Bonnet (aka, CIA Debutante) for Siltbreeze (aka, their label) following the estimable huff of The Landlord (aka, the 1st LP) after countless cassette releases (aka, too much backstory). Dust finds our heroes at the top of their game; the captivating Je ne sais quoi formed around vocal recitation & percolating electronics has been honed to perfection, moving them beyond whatever references were made in the past into a catagorization where they are known as ‘Themselves’. If I were to compare it to anything it would be that giant Zardoz head, flying around the French countryside, drolly enunciating-in English no less!-dystopian affirmations, predicting the future, rewriting the past, ordering off menu, all the while spitting forth a rain of Aperol, Pernod & Gitanes to their brutish followers below. Basically free drinks & smokes. What’s not to follow? You can Cabaret Voltaire this or Shadow Ring that all you want, but Dust puts CIA Debutante in the cat bird seat. And I don’t care what you say, the air really is more rarefied at the top. Listen & find out.”—Arthur Frayn (aka, Zardoz)

C.I.A. Debutante

The Landlord

Siltbreeze

Hailing from Paris France, 'The Landlord' is the debut vinyl outing for the duo of Nathan Roche & Paul Bonnet, otherwise known as, C.I.A. Debutante. True, the band has cast an aggressive shadow in the cassette underground for the past few years, releasing works on labels such as tanzprocesz, SDZ & Czaszka Records, but it's with Siltbreeze & 'The Landlord' that they make the great leap forward into vinyl. Fusing a sound that in short could best be described as Shadow Ring meets Cabaret Voltaire (those of you with longer legs think also the great Italian duo, The Tapes + 5ive Ximes Dust ), C.I.A. Debutante's sound sputters, percolates & ultimately illuminates your cranium like a theosophist breath mint; cool & witchy. C.I.A.Debutante have & continue to tour extensively throughout Europe, only recently supporting both ExEk & The Rebel. Look for C.I.A. Debutante to grace American shores sometime in the Spring of 2020. Limited edition of 250 lp's.