APPLETOP - MADONNA IN LOVE [FREE DOWNLOAD]

TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM, "BRAVE MOUNTAINS" RELEASED ON MONDAY 10th MARCH 2014
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Armellodie Records is proud to present Appletop from the dirty south of France with their new album, Brave Mountains, released on Monday 10th March 2014. 

Pierre Cristofari, Olivier Cancellieri and Nicolas Faou formed Appletop in Hyères, France in 2008. Since then they’ve released a clutch of EPs in their native land, and a well-received debut album, The City Can Wait via Parisien label Le Son du Maquis/Harmonia Mundi in 2010. 

Hereafter the band took to the winding roads of Europe, clocking in hundreds of shows and notching up tour supports with such indie-stalwarts as The Thermals, Wild Flag and The Horrors. 

The first single from the album, ‘Twenty-Five’, (released in France on shiny clear vinyl courtesy of A Quick One Records) whetted the public's aural taste-buds and set the tone for the long-player you now have in your possession. Two years in the making, Brave Mountains draws on British and American alt-rock traditions. Ten lean cuts of appetising indie rock meat!

‘Burning Land’, ‘Johnny’s Theme’ and ‘Madonna in Love’ are the sort of songs you would want to end a summer festival with, punching-the-air with the orange sun setting in the background. Cristofari’s charmingly curious phrasing – singing in his second language after all – echoing out from the stage. 

Elsewhere, songs like the sparse ‘Nikolai’ and the dreamy in-no-rush guitar lines of ‘Portland’ show the band at their most tender. Though there’s no need to approach with caution, we’re a million miles away from emo-melodrama. There is minimal doom and gloom; instead the listener is treated to a warm and affecting scruffy pop conscious.

“It’s the same old story, told a hundred times” sings Cristofari on enticing opener, ‘Headstrong’. And maybe it is, but Appletop succeed by digging under the surface of their beloved idols – think Sebadoh, Pavement, Teenage Fanclub –  and hit you warm in the gut with fuzzed up guitars, pared back production values and stick-to-your-ribs melodies.


APPLETOP - Madonna in Love

from 26 ep, to be release in November 2014

TWENTY SIX

C'est le SAMU ce soir qui t'a ramassé 
dans le caniveau 
Personne ne sait ce qui s'est passé
tu gis sur le dos 

Et tu saignes comme un porc
tu t'apitoies  sur ton sort
t'es bien trop jeune pour crever
qui sait ? qui sait ?

Souffrance aux urgences
t'en chies à mort dans l'ambulance 
Souffrance aux urgences
blouses blanches, indifférence 

Les clodos, les poivrots ,ça pue la merde et la mort 
sur le brancard
une lumière blanche, tu ne sens plus ton corps
bloc opératoire 

Finir dans un fauteuil 
les jambes et la teub en deuil
le cauchemard va s'arrêter 
qui sait ? qui sait ?

Bagarres -  Souffrance Aux Urgences

Tu te la joues un peu bad boy
mais t'es tombé sur des punks oi !

Baston à Boston

tu fais le mariole dans la rue
les les gangs du block ont pisté l'intrus



Bagarres - Baston À Boston

Bagarres, bagarres de filles

Comme une chatte
toutes griffes dehors
tu miaules et tu mords
tu mords

Bagarres, bagarres de filles

Comme une chienne
qui hurle à la mort
elle cherche ton corps
ton corps



Bagarres - Bagarres De Filles

The Big Tide

09. Appletop - If You're Not Gone, You're Dead (Boogers Remix)

Burning Land (May 2013) 

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Burning land

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