Fievel Is Glauque

French singer and visual artist Ma Clément met songwriter Zach Phillips in 2018 as he reeled from a concussion after colliding with a Brussels streetlamp. The band-leading duo independently released their debut album, God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess, on New Year’s Day of 2021 with as little fanfare as any of Phillips’ forty-plus past records (see: OSR Tapes, Blanche Blanche Blanche), but it gradually garnered cult acclaim among musicians and online crate diggers. Recorded entirely live with cheap microphones, half-broken cassette equipment, and a rotating cast of twenty-five able accompanists in New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, and southern France, the uncategorizable compilation of twenty quick-moving miniatures ranging from bossa nova to post-punk stands as a unique document of a promising group with an unusual ethos and a colossal amount of music in store.