Album Review: French Horn Rebellion’s “Classically Trained” Gives Me Night- LIFE!
On October 14, French Horn Rebellion releases their record Classically Trained, yet they feel like the complete opposite. This duo comes off like your naughty pair of older brothers, whom sonically push you to play a prank or sneak out of your parent’s home to go to a late-night party. My capturing of their music is not far off as French Horn Rebellion’s playful anarchy is led by real-life siblings David and Robert Perlick-Molinari. This “bro-duo” push rebellions that may seem small to you, but they spark the mutuality of French Horn Rebellions’s innocence and mischief through a techno-driven sound.
Rhythmically, Classically Trained is took a delorean that sped back to 1988. Marty McFly would
love this eighties record that sheerly paints the beginning of electronica as a romantic courter of soul music and father of its funkadelic child. Alright, I know that analogy was dramatic, but this record is dramatic, as well, in its forcefulness to make you dance. It is like that abrupt, blunt friend we all have that always cuts us off when we complain to simply say, “Are you alive? SO LIVE!”. We all have and love that friend and French Horn Rebellion gives us two of them in the David and Robert. From its beginning, the record makes you envision men and women in colorful latex and glittered jackets. They electric slide across a neon-lit discotheque where a disco-ball shines above them like the moon. They are laughing and living it up as French Horn Rebellion tells them to leave work worries at the door, because tonight is all about grooving. Just writing that vision brings a smile to my face, because everyone needs a little blissful fun. Classically Trained offers that in baskets.
love this eighties record that sheerly paints the beginning of electronica as a romantic courter of soul music and father of its funkadelic child. Alright, I know that analogy was dramatic, but this record is dramatic, as well, in its forcefulness to make you dance. It is like that abrupt, blunt friend we all have that always cuts us off when we complain to simply say, “Are you alive? SO LIVE!”. We all have and love that friend and French Horn Rebellion gives us two of them in the David and Robert. From its beginning, the record makes you envision men and women in colorful latex and glittered jackets. They electric slide across a neon-lit discotheque where a disco-ball shines above them like the moon. They are laughing and living it up as French Horn Rebellion tells them to leave work worries at the door, because tonight is all about grooving. Just writing that vision brings a smile to my face, because everyone needs a little blissful fun. Classically Trained offers that in baskets.
The irony of reviewing this vastly delightful record is that I can sum it up in one word: FUN! The eighties are still known as a fun, rambunctious era where greed was promoted. In some ways, French Horn Rebellion lyrically tap into that idea of “greed is good”, but they present greed as a vapid hunger to feel full by your nightlife. No, they are not asking you to feel fulfilled by your life, but instead your nightlife. They want you to be spiritual vampires like, in the visions I described above, where people only feel revived in the nightclub. Moreover, in this musical night-club synthetic “pop-rocks” are the “drink” of choice.
When electronica meets the innocence of pop and the grit of rocknroll, it creates electric pop-rocks. Throughout each song of Classically Trained. smooth basslines, tart synth-riffs, and SOUL! pulsate. While I am a site that is constantly seeking for the spirit of an artist, Classically Trained is about the soul of one. The difference comes in that spirit is about being enlightened, but the soul of French Horn rebellion is about feeling light. Actually, no! French Horn Rebellion is about feeling electric. Classically trained will make you think you are based shooting into the sky to permanently join with nightlife. For More Information on French Horn Rebellion And To Buy Classically Trained On October 14 Click Here.
Top 3 Tracks:
Classical Baby: You would not be alone if you found yourself voguing for your LIFE to this track. If I do not see it on a Ru Paul’s Drag Race episode then I am calling their music guy. This song was made for the glitz and glitter of Studio 54.
Foolin Around: Soul-FUNK at its best, and my favorite song of the album. It is emblematic of all that is good about French Horn Rebellion and their modernizing talent.
The Movement: the bassline of this song feels like someone handed me a million dollars and told me to run. It is heavy enough to carry a hint of mystery, while being paced to produce an adrenaline kick to your system. SO GOOD!
