‘Quand je mets ma tête dans mes mains, je revois un bout de ton sourire, tu crois que c’est ça au fond les humains, paumés pour le meilleur et pour le pire’ (2 Dégres) ‘When I put my head in my hands, I see a bit of your smile again, you think that’s what humans are deep down, lost for better and for worse’ (2 Degrees)

Litige (Dispute) are following up their 2020 full-length, En Eaux Troubles (In Troubled Waters) with a new three-track 7-inch.  The Lyon band, who include Deletär’s vocalist on guitar, continue to deliver darkly melancholic punk liberally laced with a buoyant power pop energy.  Brightly melodic guitar and a lock-step rhythm section set the tone.

But it is the clean sung yet vibrantly expressive French vocals that take centre stage as they explore themes of time, memory, and inertia in the face of climate change.  The three tracks knit together perfectly with the plaintively understated 2 Dégres and the more stridently jaunty Ça Reviendra (It Will Come Back) proving particularly persuasive.