BUNNY EP
DER LIFT
Villagevoice.com - Oct 9th, 2007
(...)from the Teenage Jesus and the Jerks-loving Laurence Wasser. But hey, I totally love Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, too; so that’s ok, we can be friends and everything, and I bet he digs James Chance’s Contortions too, and we can meet at parties and never be stuck for conversation, assuming we can get past the language barrier, and discuss quite why brusque punk-disco is so sexy, even after all these years, even when it comes packaged on riotously thin warped vinyl, and is given titles like “Der Lift” and ‘Die Frogg.’ I mean, this one, really does sound like all those angry young American post-Chicks On Speed bands like XBXRX only 4 REAL, no disrespect to anyone intended because I love all those angry young American post-Chicks On Speed bands, I really do; and even more, it reminds me of terribly serious, terribly frantic, chafing, modernistic and frenzied early Eighties art house band Big Flame, of whom you can watch a video on YouTube with my good self dancing down the front. Everett True
Victim of Time - Aug 31st, 2006
With the recent release of the Tete' de Bebe' compilation on SS Records, the French Glue Wave has washed ashore. It's rusty circuitry and angled no-wave ebb away at the wall that kept many of us from twirling to industrial noise in goth capes years ago, but here we are and the time is ripe for it. It's not hard to remember that pre-gothic Joy Division turned into the post- pre-teen electro-pop New Order in just a couple of years. As odd as it seems, it was just a couple of years ago when The Hunches "Fuck Disco Beats" single hit, and now a handful of dog years down the road and everyones digging' the rapid tempo thump. And there's that weird intersection where No-Wave's accumulating and perfectly repetitious drum beats swerve into the opulent aural arena of disco, or something the raver kids could hone their glow stick routines to. I guess that's just how things work. James Chance, the Gloria Gaynor of the underground, was hip to this and behind his noisy sax jazz freak-out, there was that sequenced flavor drone beat, 25 years ago and now it's back. Forming in Brussels in 2001, Lawrence Wasser's deviant sub-disco is for the future drudge. Like some of his French counterparts, The Electric Guitars, The Feeling of Love to name a few, he's throbbing at all the right angles. With a bizarre face mask and weird french floral print patterns, his schtick is a unique as they come. His premier single on the French Le Vilain Chien label features the pulsating and manic beats that beckon the same texture of the no-wave isochronal hip jerking groove. As a one-man outfit, the production has the chafed edges of a swanky bedroom recording. The vocals are a reporting strangulation of distortion while a frenzied horn erratically shrills over it all. The basslines are mechanically aligned with an anxious and robotic drill that will leave you twitching for more. Brett Cross
Les inrockuptibles - n°561/29 aôut 2006
Un pitbull lâché sur la piste de danse pour traquer les quelques inconscients qui résisteraient aux basses, spasmes et grooves punk-funk du turbulent Der Lift de Laurence wasser, héritier agité d'une glorieuse scène new-yorkaise qui, des Bush Tetras à Mars, inventa à la fin des années 70 ce funk mutant, épileptique et hypertendu. JDB
DISCO BANANA
Les Inrockuptibles - Hors-série "Le retour du rock" juillet 2005
Ces franco-bruxellois se souviennent de ce jour béni pour New York où les savants fous de la no-wave ont décidé qu¹ils avaient droit au disco. Comme dans une glorieuse lignée locale, des Bush Tetras aux Liars, ce groove inquiet et glacial a le diable aux trousses, mais aussi le feu aux fesses. Jean-Daniel Beauvallet
Funprox.com - Sept 15th, 2005.
Laurence Wasser is a very interesting band from Belgium. If you try to categorize their music I wish you good luck. The band itself calls it no-wave and primitive disco. On these two EP!s you will hear a strange eclectic sound with elements of new wave, post-punk, rockabilly, surf, lo-fi indie pop and indeed no wave. The mood of the music goes from melancholy to nervous, but always with a strange twist and with a lot of energy. Most tracks are instrumental. It could be a gain for the band to use some more vocals as the tracks that have that are a little stronger. Musically Laurence Wasser stands on its own. The band is original and has good playing skills. In time this band well become better known. I am sure about that. MVG