marcel

Since 2021, Belgian playful & chaotic post-punk band marcel has managed to offer undemanding yet generous music, exactly at the centre of a square formed by Dead Kennedys, Talk Talk, Nina Hagen and Jacques Dutronc, with a severe penchant for poetic-horrific lyrics about the strangeness of earthly existence. Always oscillating between the sublime and the ridiculous, they excel in a bastardised, experimental, unorthodox form of punk, which will appeal to your anarchist granny as well as your 5-year-old nephew who thinks he's right-wing, while 76% of adults who've seen them live claim to have felt a tingly, stinging joy, according to the Eurobarometer. Their latest album was produced and mixed by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls,...) and will be released by Luik Records and Géographie Records in March 2025. What else is there to say? Euaaaahhh!!!!