UNSCHOOLING + RANK-O + TIOKLU

Unschooling check off all the right post-punk boxes - twin guitars that twist and turn in angular fashion, anxious rhythms, and anguished vocals - and add a healthy amount of energetic melody to the mix.

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After punk, after indie rock, after synth pop, after math rock, after arty considerations, after pop divisions and scholarly music... Rank-O plays music from all of this. “After punk” but not “post-punk”? Rather than seeking to recreate strong moments of the past, the quartet relies on the shoulders of its spiritual fathers to build a path of its own, turned towards the future of this white whale that we call “guitar rock”.

Inhabited by a certain science of complex structures (probably inherited from the great avant-gardes of the 60s to the 90s), Rank-O also cultivates a sincere love for pop songs, immediate melodies, sometimes insidious, sometimes delightfully minimalist. This duality between twisted components and children's games gives the band's music its unique character, this impression of a mille-feuille full of surprises, always immersed in a bath of playful youth.

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Tioklu conjures up a magical pop sound that undermines its classical and structural formula. Laying out a dense soundscape the four band members play cat-and-mouse with the audience. Through tracks that overcome the norm in surprising fashions and with a barely tamed caustic wit, Tioklu solidifies an out of time and ethereal realm which encompasses a kind of dream pop overflowing with psychedelia.