SERVOFR

French band SERVO deals in the kind of dark, post-punk noise-rock that storms with ease between gloomy, hypnotic moments and bouts of powerful, motorik noise. SERVO's sound finds an unstable home between heavy, droning psych-rock and gothic post-punk: forlorn, jangling guitars and deep, austere vocals breaking down into piercing blasts of feedback and distortion.

The band have spent the last few years bringing their intense live show (an assault of trance-inducing noise and blinding flashes of light) to growing audiences around mainland Europe and the UK. The new album Monsters came out in early 2024, and the objective is still the same: the music is to serve the live performance. The show has to be powerful and immersive. Each track is blessed by brutality and heaviness. The space left after the storm can be filled with details and complexity, as predictable as unexpected. The audience is captured, hypnotised, and no one can escape.