Laurène Exposito releases her 3rd album on Knekelhuis. "Honolulu / Saigon" is a collage of unreleased material, and previously on cassette released work. Some songs go even back to the era of Sabine and ties in wonderfully with Laurène’s previous work. She’s been performing some of these tracks back in the days. For sure a pleasant recognition.

Not to be confused with Boredoms' "Yamataka Eye", this EYE is French artist Laurène Exposito, who collages homespun electro-samba vignettes from her archive to assemble "Honolulu / Saigon".

On her third album, Exposito looks back to the past, exhuming her best unreleased material and cassette-only work and splicing it together into a coherent session. It's good stuff too, properly rooted in the perennially underrated Disques du Crepescule mode, specifically the influential work of Belgian synth-pop trio Antena. Singing into an echo chamber over wonky synths and uneven vintage drum machine loops, Exposito sounds as if she's unmoored from our current reality, existing in a parallel, punk-utopian 1980s.

"'Ti Amo' is crusty and saturated enough to make us assume it was a period recording, with Exposito sing-speaking through a dub-coded mixing board and playful, cheap synths filling in the gaps. But 'Jeannette' sounds more like earlier electro-pop, replete with tinny vocals and oversaturated, disintegrated drums. 'La Mort de la Maîtresse' is more self-assured, coming across like trance made on a Casio keyboard, and 'AAM' is so grotty it sounds as if it was digitized from an old dictaphone tape. Exposito is able to capture the era's mood remarkably well, and even if her music doesn't sound in line with current production mores, at least it's got heart - something that's too often missing."

- Boomkat

TRACKLIST:

01. Mata El Meta 03:13
02. Ti Amo 03:10
03. Jeannette ((Braque cover)) 02:51
04. Le Croquis de La Femme 03:57
05. La Mort de la Maîtresse 03:10
06. La Croquis de La Femme [Demo] 03:09
07. Put Down 03:42
08. Carousel 04:17
09. AAM 05:06
10. Bad Jazz 03:36
11. Your Face Is A Picture 04:23
12. Fou De Toi 02:15