One of the strengths of the Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes festival was the opportunity to catch acts that would be outwith my usual listening comfort zone.
The festival's bill was an eclectic one, in the most part steering away from obvious commercial acts and instead giving acts that are more interesting the opportunity to showcase their work in front of an open-minded audience.
So it was with Doist! performing at the Heineken Green Room on the final night of the festival.
The duo from Rennes were tipped as a marriage of electro and metal, but they were much more than this. It wasn't metal as such, probably not electro either, but something that fans of each genre would certainly recognise and respond to at an instinctive level.
Fans of extreme music of any stripe would be into what Doist! are doing.
They're not the first French act to put guitar and electro together and take things to a new level - older listeners will remember the likes of Heldon and the solo work of Richard Pinhas - and while in some ways what Doist! is doing is an extension of that electronic rock, they've come up with something exciting in its own right.
Their digital release Black Church EP was released in April this year, with four tracks and three remixes. It is available from their bandcamp site at a price of your choosing. http://doist.bandcamp.com/
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