‘Deviant Pop’ is magnetic for so many reasons. Not least of all, this ever so immersive art rock escapist adventure just seems so rich and affluent with its ideological compass that you’re left inspired and enthralled by the sheer musicality that’s on offer. Of course, as a non native speaker, a lot of the nuances in the song-writing are left lost on me. But that doesn’t for a moment take away from the wonderful lusciousness of each songs arrangement. Slightly washed over at times, other times entirely flooded with sonic explosions from back to front, ‘Deviant Pop’ doesn’t for once take its foot off the pedal in delivering experience after experience to marvel at.
From the opening piece on ‘Nos Egos’, the rather quaint and flowing delivery feels ever so light and deft to listen to, a particularly effective way to swoon the listener into this rather smooth and marvellous experience that leaves you entirely confounded by some of the sheer elements in the arrangement, but moreover amazed and increasingly hypnotised by its magnetism. My personal favourites on the record came on the mesmerising ‘La Lassitude’. The building riff of this song, its continual and perennial movement that keeps building with a rather constant and undulating energy just grips you and doesn’t let you off its Ferris wheel.
From a top down and overall perspective, it’s not hard to see Deviant Pop as something of a unicorn in a mist. It’s one of those strange and rare projects, a successful and intriguing interpolation and combination of so many genres that somehow is able to spawn something that itself exists in this timeless space, a sound that doesn’t sound old, new, or present, but eternal. With immaculate production throughout, you don’t need to understand what Sisyphes is saying to enjoy this masterpiece.