Very little is known about this Paris, France based quartet of Alternative Rock/ Metal youngsters, but from little bits and pieces in different sources on the Internet, I was able to gather together the following.
First of all...they're young! Gee, just look at the promo picture at (www.) dotlegacyband.com (which is really but a page to direct people to other sites on which the band has a page), and you'd guess none of the four is over 19 years old. But that's really beside the point, because the guys handle their instruments like musicians which have been feeding off each other for decades! I have no idea whom was there at the start of the band, back somewhere in 2009, but I dó know that drummer Romain Bat is the latest addition to the line-up, which otherwize consists of singer/ guitarist Jean-Suliac Defontaine, guitarist Arnaud Merckling, and singer/ bassist Damien Quintard. And that's it...that's all the info I could gather!
Stylistically, the band play around with elements of Stoner, Noise and Post-Rock, fluttering from more fuzzed-out passages to intensely calmer moments which fit together admirably, with fitting twin vocals (slightly aggro in the heavier passages, cleaner in the calmer ones – with a backing which usually sounds like gang vocals) on top. And then there's these couple of very well-done “experiments”, which at first seem to deviate from the band's style, but are, in retrospect, in fact quite fitting. “The Passage”, for instance, apparently finds “vocals” in a mixture of two samples, but is otherwise a real wacky instrumental. An ideal resting point in the 9-track album, after 3 more energetic songs. So is the short, somewhat melancholic and acoustic (only one guitar being played, the lead singer accompanied by two of the other guys in different parts of the octave) album closing “3 am”. “Pyramid” finds the guys working with some Rap and a touch of Funk, for a track which reminded me somewhat of what bands the likes of Linea 77 used to do, a feeling which returns with “Rumbera”, which finds the singers doin' their thing in Spanish, and the boys adding lavish organ I a very lively track, which is however not devoid of the tempo changes and odd breaks one has by now gotten used t by this band! Then, the near 9-minute “The Midnight Weirdos” sounds like something which might've been written in the high times of the heavier Psychedelic Rock scene of the sixties!
The band is said to have developed a stage act “worth skipping bowling”, and quite frankly, I envy the people of Paris, because they could go and see the band play in live conditions if they'd feel so inclined. Us people who live far away from that cosmopolitan town, will have to make due with the music. You can find a sneak preview in a “video” posted at the band's facebook page, and the complete album can be listened to at its BandCamp page (find links at the band's own site, mentioned at the beginning of the second paragraph of this here review). Check it out now...you will not be disappointed, I'm sure. Personally, I've found the material exhilerating enough to propel it into my “Best Albums Of 2014” lists, no matter what some other reviewers already wrote (check the short story one H.P. Buttcraft – that name a joke, or what? – of (www.) metal-temple.com wrote: a complete break-down of the album, without any references to genre what-so-ever. Really, that guy should stick to writing short stories...but then again he probably wouldn't get very much of his “work” published, would he!?).
You may notice I reviewed this album fàr before its release date? That's because I had already done my research on the band before a mail arrived at the office containing that info, as well as a notification that a new video, for the album's leading track “Kennedy”, is now available at YouTube. I haven't seen it yet, but here's what the band had to say about it ; “We chose “Kennedy” as the track's title because we are all inspired by the path of mankind towards the stars, progress and technology. It's a mixture of Pop, Rock and Stoner altogether. “Kennedy” is based on a speech of the US President before the congress in which he says that within the decade they should land a man on the moon. The structure of the songs and the clip is done in a way where you feel mankind running towards an objective, the lifting off (the psychedelic solo) and finally reaching this new state or era (the ending with the while lady) in exploding circumstances. The instention was to alternate fast rhythms with some Pop Rock feelings and Stoner breaks, and then go to a psychedelic tunnel to emerge with some good old Rock!”. Why...if that don't make you curious, I don't know, so check out the video at (www.) youtube.com/watch?v=x5K-vHKx7eY now!