Vae Vobis

Fifteen years in and Zombie Zombie are going way back, the cinematic French synth trio's sixth studio album Vae Vobis veers away from the science fiction overload of their 2017 opus Livity to plunge their music deep into the Middle Ages. Joined by soprano singer Angele Chemin and Francois and The Atlas Mountains' Laura Etchegoyhen as part of the Doomed Angels choir on vocals, lyrics are sung in Latin, drawn from the proverbs of the Dutch humanist Erasmus. "We wanted to remain mysterious, to send cryptic messages," the pair say, "to dive back into a language from another time, like the copyist monks of the Middle Ages." Recorded with Laurent de Boisgisson at Studio One Two Pass It in Bagnolet, the result is something akin to a reverberating doom orgy. Previous work has always lent itself a cinematic edge - reaching its culmination in the form of two film soundtracks, for French films Irreprochable and L'Heure De La