Grive: clear lines and poisonous beauty. Debut album “Tales of Uncertainty” (out Oct. 11, 2024) available for preorder
Although their collaboration officially took flight in early 2021 with the release of an EP, the two musicians began experimenting as early as 2015 at the Performing Arts Forum in Saint-Erme, Picardy. In these rural landscapes, they sketched out a new sound—both direct and contemplative—where they could tell stories of fast-food joints (“Burger Shack”) and emancipation (“How Many Years”), which their debut album, Tales of Uncertainty (Out Oct. 11th, 2024) crystallizes into a unique work.
Recorded live (at Mer Noir studio in Paris and then at Mélodium in Montreuil), these eight tracks capture the excitement and spontaneity of a meeting, revealing an unmatched chemistry.
Shoegaze? Slowcore? Post-folk? The genre doesn’t matter. Deeply organic, Grive’s compositions evoke liminal spaces and vast landscapes. Influenced by the sound of the 90s, their ambivalent nature is resolutely contemporary: by turns sharp with their edgy guitar riffs or soothing with the thick, round bass of a Moog synthesizer. Here, the storm threatens (or is it the heart rumbling?). There, the melodies with clear lines and poisonous beauty insinuate themselves into languid and haunting tempos. And as a guiding thread, Agnès’s voice speaks directly to our subconscious reveries, in that fine line between dream and reality where everything is uncertain.
Tales of Uncertainty available for pre-order from the Talitres webstore or Bandcamp.
White vinyl (ltd edition, 500 units), printed inner sleeve, w/ download coupon. Black vinyl, printed inner sleeve, w/ download coupon. CD digisleeve with booklet.
Pre-order: 10% OFF (black vinyl & cd digisleeve,
• Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/grivetalesbc
• Talitres: https://bit.ly/grivetalestal
• Digital: https://bit.ly/grivetalesdig
GRIVE “Tales of Uncertainty” 1. Hotel Room 2. Wait and See 3. Burger Shack 4. How Many Years – 5. Darkest Woman on Earth 6. Go Up the River – 7. Quicksands – 8. The Loop
First single “Wait & See”, video directed by Mateo Hénot.
