THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS ON PCS...

After a first noise-rock album named Silence slowly and madly shines (2017), and a second dark-epic Private meaning first (2020), they’re prescribing a third, more colorful one...

Just like its name reveals, Pink Color Surgery is neo-romantic. It is experimental both musically and lyrically. Post-modern written, totally destructured, there is almost no way to define a chorus from a verse. They’re playing a part, painting a rock-electronic groovy canvas of automation and destruction.

On the occasion of the release of the album, we have asked Artie, Guitarist and Vocalist to tell us more about the making of Pink Color Surgery.

" One of the subjects addrasessed in Pink Colour Surgery is the relationship we have with our bodies, the way we want to reclaim it, sometimes going against what society makes of it. Relationships of power and gender run through it, are shaping and controlling it... "

The album cover features a masculine contraceptive ring, also called ‘Andro-Switch’. Which made us wonder, and, ask the band about this eccentric choice.

" For us, it was a way of making visible a subversive and political object that symbolizes these issues. The Androswich is an object of care, for yourself and for others, and we really think caring is political... It resonates with what we tried to do with the music. "

We did some research about the Andro-Switch, and it's actually one of the most reliable, reversible, economic and ecological contraceptive methods developed to this day. This conclusion is confirmed by Dr. Karam Aouini, family medicine resident, activist and member of the association Mawjoudin - We Exist.

Furthermore, this dispositif does not protect you from MSTs. And so, is mainly about giving male partners the responsability of contraception.

"... Working on this album has really been kind of a safe space for us during the last 3 years. Especially since we began this work during lockdown. It’s really been a space where we could express ourselves freely about our intimacies, take a breath from the anxiety of the reality of society, and take care of each other. Working on it was also a way of discovering a lot about ourselves. When we realized music could be that kind of healing space, we wanted to make it also accessible to other people."