Vacuum Sealed

Vacuum Sealed is the third album from one of the best French garage/shoegaze/dream-pop bands around. Bryan's Magic Tears has the potential to become one of the guitar classics of the early 20s.

The band is made up of musicians who also have - or had - a foot in the bands Villejuif Underground, Pleasure Principle, Bisous de Saddam, and Dame Blanche. Like all great albums, Vacuum Sealed opens with a screaming introduction with the song "Greeting From The Space Boys," a middle finger raised by the whole band from the stratosphere.

The band members include Lauriane Petit on bass and vocals, Raphael Berrichon and Medhi Briand on guitars, and Paul Ramon on drums. The band goes from one breathtaking track to another, with songs like "Excuses" sung by Lauriane reminiscent of a Kim Deal composition, "Sad Toys" showcasing dancing melancholia, and "Pictures Of You" featuring the best guitar riff ever played with a vibrato.

One could believe that Bryan's Magic Tears is the gifted son of The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and Primal Scream. In 1991, the album would have been recorded by a British band and released by Creation. However, we are thirty years later, and it's made by a band with a Norman soul and published by Born Bad Records.