MNNQNS

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" Dark rockers from Normandy experimenting with textures "

For some reason, these four boys from Normandy seem to be allergic to vowels. To pronounce their name, MNNQNS, you simply have to bring all the vowels back and all of a sudden a word appears: ‘mannequins’, a word which has a similar meaning in their native language. They’re French but their songs are in English, and their influences are clearly American and British, with a soft spot for 1970’s angular rock and dark post-punk.

Nourished by these influences, Adrian d’Epinay got the idea to form a band in 2013 when he was studying in Cardiff on an exchange programme. He fell in love with the exciting British music scene and decided to start his own band as soon as he came back to France with three musicians. Their nervous, electrifying riffs immediately made them one of the most interesting new bands in the French rock scene.

MNNQNS started their career with a couple of EPs, ‘Capital’ (2016) and ‘Advertisement’ (2018), which confirmed all the hopes placed in them. The next logical step: recording an album. They made it in the French countryside, a quiet place for a not-so-quiet album. Bursting with feverish energy and experimental textures, ‘Body Negative’ (2019) is a collection of twelve intense songs.

The global pandemic did not discourage them at all: they wrote a brand new album, ‘The Second Principle’, recorded in Normandy and released in 2022. In the process, they freed themselves from the dogmas of cold wave and post-punk, incorporating new soundscapes. MNNQNS have the capacity to create intangible songs blending cosmic atmospheres, psychedelic guitars and ambient experimentations. Don’t miss the chance to see them live to fully experience their frenzy!

Picture : Theo Soyez