Name: Parlor
Nationality: French
Members: Arthur (voice), Yann (guitar), Guillaume (drums), Boris (bass)
Current Release: Parlor's new album Tears For Everything is out via Source Atone.

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Who/what are currently artists, labels or even genres which draw you in because of their darker approaches, aesthetics and sound(s)?

Boris: I’ve got quite obsessed these past years with the noise-rock music scene, this is not as much a darkness kink as it is related to its inherent weirdness and particular tone and groove.

Holy Trinity would be Shellac, The Jesus Lizard and Unwound.



My favorite current label is The Ghost Is Clear. I love everything they put out recently, from the grindcore of Missouri Executive Order 44 …



… to the Helmet-like grooves of KNUB, …



…. from the noise punk of Blue Youth …



... to sludge-doom masters DUG.



They have also have signed one of the most interesting French noise bands, //LESS, I absolutely love their album and everyone should check it out.



I would also recommend all the good stuff from Cmptr Stndts, with their minimalist aesthetics, attention to details and aluminium packagings.

The last vinyl I bought was the collaborative album between Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo, which has just come out on their label at the time of this writing.



Minimal rock quartet New Brutalism have also released a great EP recently, which was one of the very last recordings made at Electrical Audio by the much-missed Steve Albini.



Last Big’n album is also killer.

Other darkness-oriented bands I dig and who inspire me right now would be Facet, Shearling, Great Falls, Porcelain (ex-Exhalants), Haunted Horses, Ragana, …



… Gouge Away, Tunic, Rid of Me, Halfmass, Couch Slut, Human Impact, Cherubs, Young Widows, …



... Chat Pile, //LESS and DITZ, among older records from Amrep, Touch and Go and Skin Graft labels.

Yann: There are a few artists and works that really inspire me. Breach remains an absolute reference — they balance madness and precision like no one else.



More recently, Chat Pile has had a strong impact on me with their mix of brutality and absurd despair.



Outside of music, some video games like Inside or Limbo left a deep mark on me. They’re minimalistic but emotionally overwhelming.

And in cinema, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men still fascinates me — desperate, yet profoundly human.

All these works feed me and shape the way I think about music and emotion.