Gablé – 7 Guitars With A Cloud Of Milk

7 Guitars With A Cloud Of Milk is the puzzlingly titled sophomore effort from slightly cracked French trio Gablé. On a self-proclaimed “luxury DIY” label from London called LOAF, Gablé’s effort doesn’t really allow itself to be judged by regular album review criteria. It is best described as a sort of lo-fi pop cabaret, with different approaches and textures flying out of the speakers briefly and then being replaced straight away with new ideas. About half of the time, the songs are sung by a man and a woman, both with French accents. Nothing surprising there. But the rest of the time, someone with a vaguely comical English accent recounts stories over the music. These are generally quite funny.

The opening track, Noone Knows Why, tells of a group of people that depopulates gradually due to unlikely methods of suicide. The only track that beats this is the closer, Drunk Fox In London, which is a dialogue between someone extolling the virtues of the fox, and a fox planning to get drunk and eat people. It ends with a glitchy electro wig-out. There are a few of those over the course of the album. Apart from electro, retro French vinyl loops and elementary piano make appearances as musical backing.

It would be an overstatement to say that 7 Guitars With A Cloud of Milk is actually good. More reasonably, it should be called “interesting”, because it is undeniably that. Around every corner is a different reason to laugh or furrow the brow. A singular way to spend an hour.

Check out some tracks here. Album’s out on the 19th May, buy it in a shop.