Vialka are a French duo, comprising Marylise Frecheville on drums and vocals, and Eric Boros on guitars, who essay an environmentally friendly progressive rock in miniature.
Their seventh album finds the poly-rhythms, complex chord changes, and surges of mood usually associated with Seventies behemoths or hyrda-headed post-rock collectives leap forth in unusually lean and lithe form.
It’s as if a pair of Pyrenean street performers had covered King Crimson’s Red, in its entirety, in the Place de Ville, for loose change. Petit Mot epitomises Vialka’s approach, audacious fluttering female vocals playing catch-up with rolling percussion and prize-fighting, punchy guitar stabs.
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Idrie, Youtube
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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John Robins, Comedian
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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World Without End, Twitter
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube