by Zac in New Music on Thursday 18 May 2006

French dub group, Zenzile, were one the stars of the recent South By South West music festival held in Austin, Texas — their irrascible hybrid of beats and upbeat, funky basslines a pleasant relief from the plethora of indie-guitar bands that seem to dominate the radio airwaves these days. The SXSW website describes them as a musically adventurous band suggesting that they ‘perpetually renovate their music by refining and always looking for new sounds. They explore the dub universe without rest, offering the freedom of original dub, revealing its real nature of its origine. But Zenzile is still a rock band … child of Clash and Ruts, of course, but maybe also little brother of Sonic Youth and Fugazy’. And having heard their debut album – Modus Vivendi – that’s probably a fair description. Thanks to the good folk at Shock Records we have ten CDs to give away to random emailers with their address and their favourite French treat in the body of the message. Croissants are out of the equation. Too damn flakey