Thomas Mery - les couleurs, les ombres (2011, Own Records)

It is a long fight. It's a long trail and the end is nowhere near.

Second solo album for Thomas Méry, but as with his previous EP, "Des Larmes Mélangées De Poussière", singing and playing guitar, he is backed up again by Stéphane Bouvier (bass and clarinet) and Jérôme Lorichon (drums trumpet, waves and piano parts), which were his bandmates on the two Purr albums.

Thomas Mery - des larmes mélangées de poussière (2010, Ohayo)

Two albums with Purr, a first one giving very good impressions, connecting to the post-rock/post-hardcore/slowcore US scene and a second one sung in French but unable to get a complete achievement, like growing up too quickly.

The demise, everyone going into very different directions, followed by a solo career for Thomas Mery, which kept him busy, developing and searching, for austere, obscure and not always gripping results - but some impressive surprises -, something at times I was afraid could become an impasse.