Claptrap
Second Guessing
Claptrap presents Second Guessing, a second album of tropical, danceable and experimental pop. The band is led by songwriter, singer and guitarist Eric Pasquereau — best known for his work with Papier Tigre, La Colonie de Vacances and The Patriotic Sunday — alongside multi-instrumentalists and sonic tightrope walkers Julien Chevalier and Paul Loiseau (also active in La Terre Tremble!!! and Borja Flames), recently joined by keyboardist and vocalist Elia Guérin (JoGo, Bleu Shinobi). For more than …
Adulting
*Limited to 300 copies* At first, Claptrap’s songs are like a wandering mind with fingers sliding randomly between two rusty strings. Rinkydink snippets come into view: a clementine, a few grains of sand, a dial phone...Words, sounds and images materialise and remain totally groundless. Erring brings about reflection and some unexpected relations begin to show between sound, meaning, noise and silence. What matters is not what they signify as a whole, but what the whole points out and reveals. I…