Kicking down the door with the sharp vocals of Julian Cires in "The Queen is Dead", LAVOLA begins
Leaving Paris with an audible bang of post-punk energy that I only wished lasted more than the five minutes of its fiery discharge. The trio from West Palm Beach, Florida has presented us with a collection of six songs that shove listeners through Cires' nasally snarls and dark lyrical content. Between
Leaving Paris' love for blazing guitar work performed by Cires and its playful ventures into post-rock inspired songwriting, the instrumental side of Leaving Paris is consistently interesting even if it isn't necessarily consistently good. Regardless of its few songwriting missteps,
Leaving Paris is diverse, thrilling, and well worth the consumer-choice price that LAVOLA has offered.
