Franck Vigroux - Rapport Sur Le Désordre (2016)

Still fizzing from collaborations with Mika Vainio, Reinhold Friedl and Matthew Bourne in the last 12 months, Franck Vigroux gets down to some gnarly solo business with Rapport Sur Le Désordre, or Report of Disorder, which also forms part of the soundtrack to his Centaure A/V show with video artist, Kurt D’Haeseleer (as also heard in his EP for Shapednoise’s Cosmo Rhythmatic label).

Rapport Sur Le Désordre offers suitably severe closure to a series steeped in the dystopia of Eugène Zamiatine’s novel, We, including the albums Camera Police and We, plus the radio piece, D503. It ties off all their themes of state surveillance, industrial paranoia and surreality in an eight part navigation thru infernal distortion, heavily Vainio-esque boulder beats, and sheets of blinding hot electrical disturbance that shock its creaking megastructures to life.