Exploring the late 90s and early 00s niche of real screamo, the debut album from plein de vie sticks into your stomach and hinders breathing. Drawing from the greats of the legendary style, it comes as a deeply emotional and painful record and vaults the band into the conversation as one of the most notable European bands in the genre this year. Based out of Ankara, Turkey, plein de vie is a collaborative effort of 4 individuals and prefers to be perceived as one single entity, regardless of the band members’ identities. In their music they attempt to reflect concepts such as loss, lack of belonging and trying not to lose hope in a materialist society, while just trying to exist in a world where individuals can only be perceived by their statues or monetary value. Musically, the...