Camera Silens - Realite LP

Label: Les Troubadours du Chaos; Year: 2005; Format: Vinyl LP

Punkers and Punkettes, listen up, because I won't repeat myself here too often. All of you out there need to get their greedy hands on a copy of this outstanding full length by Camera Silens from la belle France, Bordeaux to be exact. Back in 1984 the band self-released this smasher of an album, and I don't need to stress my assumption that most copies were either distributed locally, or at least nationally. I personally got to hear them for the first time through one of the 'Chaos en France' compilation LPs, released through Chaos Productions, also in the '80s. France had a lot to offer in the early to mid-80s when it comes to anthemic, melodic, yet hard street punk and bands such as Komintern Sect, Trotskids, Camera Silens, and some others were always loved by fans around the globe. For the longest time though it was extremely difficult, and above all very expensive to get original copies of those excellent releases, until in the 2000s the French finally woke up too, and especially Euthanasie Records has been reissuing a lot of the sought after material. This LP here is already into its 3rd round of reprints, and a couple of years ago also landed on a U.S. based label. There is really not much I need to say here, as all ten songs on here are superb, the production was above standard, and the song-writing phenomenal. U.K. bands such as GBH or Exploited could just dream of being able to produce an album like this one here, but convince yourself! Tell me if I was wrong!