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“Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit” (Until the End of the Night), the second full-length from Montreal hellions, ULTRA RAZZIA, reads as a dramatic, au courant, skinhead pulpe noire or torturous hooks that will kick about your noggin for days on end. A towering spectre of impending menace disguised as reverie, cheering loudly with the lads as the last ticks of today become the first hours of tomorrow.
Our take: Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit is the second album by this Francophone oi! group from Montreal. I liked Ultra Razzia’s first album, but Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit strikes me as a lot more refined. While it’s bookended by two hardcore-ish tracks, most of the record is quite polished as far as oi! music goes, with careful production, complex (but still stylistically on the money) songwriting, and powerful performances from all the players. It reminds me of Syndrome 81 recent LP, Prisons Imaginaires, that so many people have been loving… oi! music with a somber tone and a higher degree of sophistication that one expects from the skinhead set. The last Criminal Damage album, Call of Death, and the earlier, punkier Leatherface records are two more good points of comparison. I also have to mention the over the top packaging on Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit. It comes housed in a gatefold sleeve whose inside and outside (as well as the two-sided poster insert and center labels) are all illustrated by the same artist, Claudio Elias Scialabba. The drawings are insanely detailed… a bunch of the SSR crew spent like fifteen minutes the other day standing in a circle around a copy and pointing out all the crazy things we noticed. With a criminally small vinyl pressing of only 270 copies, I’d suggest grabbing this one quick if you’re interested.
Our take: Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit is the second album by this Francophone oi! group from Montreal. I liked Ultra Razzia’s first album, but Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit strikes me as a lot more refined. While it’s bookended by two hardcore-ish tracks, most of the record is quite polished as far as oi! music goes, with careful production, complex (but still stylistically on the money) songwriting, and powerful performances from all the players. It reminds me of Syndrome 81 recent LP, Prisons Imaginaires, that so many people have been loving… oi! music with a somber tone and a higher degree of sophistication that one expects from the skinhead set. The last Criminal Damage album, Call of Death, and the earlier, punkier Leatherface records are two more good points of comparison. I also have to mention the over the top packaging on Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit. It comes housed in a gatefold sleeve whose inside and outside (as well as the two-sided poster insert and center labels) are all illustrated by the same artist, Claudio Elias Scialabba. The drawings are insanely detailed… a bunch of the SSR crew spent like fifteen minutes the other day standing in a circle around a copy and pointing out all the crazy things we noticed. With a criminally small vinyl pressing of only 270 copies, I’d suggest grabbing this one quick if you’re interested.