Le Manifeste des Hommes-briques

How to escape the clutches of the bureaucratic system which tries to trap you within its totalitarian web ?

How to use mimetism and melt into brick walls in order to confound the mischievous plans of the urban Monster ?

How to express cautiously your opinions without being suspected of a lack of proprieties ?

If, reading these lines, you're telling yourself : « The situation is serious ! ». Then, you're wrong. The situation is worse ! Comrades in the Resistance, it is high time to get out of anonymity and to take our hats for the fight again.

In these cynical hours when man is just a willing victim of passivity and confinement, nothing seems to be able to oppose the advent of the « neighbour's tyranny », the reign of suspicion and denouncement. Choked under the strain of this bureaucracy which is obsessed with form filling, individual identity is slowly disappearing. An irreversible dissolution of the soul characterized by the reduction of the way you can express yourself and the persistence of a feeling of insecurity through its contact with novelty. It looks obvious that this overvaluation of danger leaves no place to initiative, to imagination or to any form of individual distinction. The aim of this invisible but daily entreprise has a name, elevated to the rank of ideal by the bureaucratic administration : « Autocracy ». This phenomenon under construction implies that each citizen has to manage without having any authority and apply all the principles of the present system, so automatically that it becomes unconscious.

Alas, although the citizen is malleable, he is still capable of reflection. It is with the hope lying in this premise that Clock devoted itself to the creation and distribution of an underground treaty about resistance at the office, counter-propaganda and nonconformist subversion : « Le Manifeste des Hommes-Briques ».

« Le Manifeste des Hommes-Briques », first album of the band Clock, consists in a musical interlace of twelve tracks punctuated by allusions to cinematography. Through a protean Post-Rock style, Clock unveils for us a urban and dangerous tale : Griville, remarkably highlighted by the graphic work of the illustrator Aurélien Police. The band immerses us in an imaginary universe feeding on SF and « noir » films, extension of themes from daily life. The poetic writing avoids the trap of simple narration and portrays characters both lost and confined. With rock efficiency and sound experimentations, « Le Manifeste des Hommes-Briques » offers twelve tracks with a strong identity. A record to be listened to, but also to be read and watched.