Utopie Virage LP
France has proved to be fertile ground for the kind of spartan, frigid post-Oi! that UTOPIE deals in—bootboy vox and shouted gang refrains twinned with the kind of atmospheric bass lines and utilitarian riffs that one would associate with contemporaries like SYNDROME 81 or BRUX, perhaps. It certainly fits that bill, but it does leave me quite cold. It doesn’t quite have the grit or tunes to grab me for a full LP’s worth of music, unfortunately. Not bad, just not memorable in the slightest.