Sunday 7 April 2019

Triptone 'My Life' Review








Artist: Triptone




Title: My Life




Released: 5th April 2019












Triptone is a side project of Franck Jousselin (Kick Bong) where he composes the music … drums, bass, synths, keys and virtual guitar, as well as vocals which are also penned by some of the guests on the productions. This collection of tracks, two years in the making places the focus on electro, trip-hop and pop.


The album starts with a dark brooding synth that soon morphs into a mellow piece of electronica on ‘Around Me’ featuring SR. While ‘Give Me A Reason’ featuring Nartingale has a bassline reminiscent of 80’s synth-pop while Natasha’s vocals adds more of a mellow trip-hop aspect to the piece.


If by now, you're enjoying the style of this album it does continue in a similar fashion throughout. The title track ‘My Life’ is a slow burner with somewhat of a cinematic feel with Houcem Elamine on violin, where the vocals have flipped to his native French rather than English of the previous pieces. While my personal favourite ‘Lovely Doll’ featuring Romy on backing vocals is a sequenced piece of electro where you can sense the 80’s influences within.


To summarise this album may not appeal to all the fans of his Kick Bong project, and it’s definitely drawing inspiration from other genres. The days when releases by Depeche Mode and Ultravox, or Massive Attack and Portishead hit the charts may well be long gone but there influences live on.


Review by Woodzee











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