French eight-piece Eskaton recorded three albums during the late 70's and early-to-mid eighties. With their French female vocals laid over proggy, sometimes frantic rhythms they kind of sound like my favorite band meets Rush. I've been listening to their last album Icare all day and I think it's pretty special...but be advised that I have a history of getting overexcited about 80s era artifacts that merge prog and punk, like for example Magazine, who I have been assured by every punker I've ever spoken to are not as cool or interesting a band as I think. The track I'm putting up is the simplest, prettiest, least proggy and most overtly Stereolab-ish song on the album. Icare is long out-of-print; it wasn't that hard for me to track down, though, so if you like what you hear you should be able to find it yourself.
04 Icare IV.mp3
(For those unfamiliar with mp3 blog procedure: click to listen, right-click "save as" to download)
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