I was very pleased to get my hands on the debut album by Paris-based rock band Seed from the Geisha, Talk Peace to the Wolf.
I've featured them before, having heard a track on an earlier edition of the French Music Podcast UK.
The band are a fine example of what a rock band should sound like these days, epic without being blustering, with an instrumental ability that impresses without straying into self-indulgence and with great songwriting ability underpinning everything.
They remind me of a heavier Manic Street Preachers, and although a heavy rock band, they're not one that takes an easy road and chooses to limit themselves to playing within a restricted genre. Rather they push both the boundaries and themselves a little further and come up with something better as a result.
I'd like to hear more of this band and this promising debut marks them as a band with the potential to progress into something very special indeed.
Some of their tracks are available to hear on their MySpace site here> http://www.myspace.com/seedfromthegeisha
