“An album like a blast, No refuge — just the raw cry of a raw body.”
About 3 years after crashing onto our radar with their feral single “Instacat” and the razor-sharp EP ‘Cement’, HxC Punk x Noisecore quartet PARLOR returns — not to soothe, but to shake. Their new album, ‘Tears For Everything’, is an unflinching exploration of emotional burnout and existential noise — a soundtrack for those caught between numbness and rage.
Formed in Paris in 2016 by Guillaume Quincy (drums), Boris Patchinsky (bass), Yann Desti (guitar), and Arthur Leparc (vocals), PARLOR has been carving out a sound that fuses the chaos of hardcore-punk with the weight of post-metal and the tension of noise rock. Think Botch, Converge, and Breach, but filtered through a distinctly modern sense of urgency and despair.
“Tears for every moment, silent or furious, testify to an inner storm within a tense body, in search of momentum, engulfed by a world racing to the point of absurdity,”
— PARLOR
That statement sets the tone for ‘Tears For Everything’ — an album that’s less a collection of songs than a psychological excavation. Across ten tracks, PARLOR traces the downfall of a character born into conformity and swallowed by the pressures of a hyperconnected, self-devouring world.
The story begins with “Glide” and “Bind”, depicting a life already shackled by social conditioning. Youth becomes a blur of screens and self-doubt in “Juvenile”, while “Cement Diktat” captures the paralysis of failure — the crushing weight of unmet expectations. The mid-section burns with exhaustion and cynicism: “In Charge” dissects the soul-deadening rhythms of corporate life, while “Conqueror” and “Solace” reveal the futile pursuit of relief through self-gratification and psychotropics.
By the time “Abyss”, “The Drop”, and “Tunnel” close the record, the descent is complete — a slow, spiraling fall into madness, where alcohol and delusion become the last companions of a broken self.
Released via Source Atone Records (Alta Rossa, Feral, Junon, Membrane…), ‘Tears For Everything’ isn’t pretty — it’s not meant to be. It’s raw, corrosive, and painfully human. Every riff feels like a wound reopening; every scream, a truth too long ignored.
With Tears For Everything, PARLOR doesn’t just deliver another chapter in their evolution — they hold up a mirror to a generation wired, tired, and gasping for meaning. It’s heavy music for heavy times, and it hits exactly where it hurts.
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