Thomas Azier does not make it too difficult for the music journal. He recorded his debut album (2014) in Berlin - and it sounded like that; hard, metallic and industrial. For successor (my number 1 of 2017) the bred Frisian fled to Paris - and you clearly heard that too; the very strong synthpop record sounded softer, warmer and more romantic. More than a year later, there is now already Stray
… (English for wandering) and yes; this time the songs sprang up everywhere and nowhere. In trains and hotel rooms - on his computer with a USB microphone - and almost all songs contain ambient sounds. Like the 'singing' Japanese cicadas in the beautiful The Girl Beneath The Lion. The 31-year-old Azier said goodbye to his record company and his manager and said in the Friesch Dagblad: 'I could now travel, go for a walk, have conversations and in the evening, without any pressure, process all the impressions in my own environment into music.' Jealous, albeit that this freedom too often translates into liberty on the fragmentary Stray. (RME)more
