After two successive concept releases “Spoken Dub Manifesto” with its prestigious guests plethora in 2OO6 and the fabulous sound quilt “Short cuts “in 2008, Brain Damage is coming back earlier this year with” Before Sunset Burning» its fifth opus. This release notes the “Stéphanois” come back to dub ambient with dark and melancholy emotions. A sound science close to the alchemy. However, this album - far from the Anglo Jamaican dub era “Ashes to Ashes Dub to Dub” - is once against everything Brain Damage has been proposed in the past. If all titles published seem in the neophyte eyes built on patterns close, robotic assemblies, it’s clear the Martin and Raphael challenge is once again raised and fans necessarily gather the first period reminiscences. Sound primarily based on a nonchalant dub rhythmic, we recognize it as the first kick, becomes a whole indivisible raw material with a dull and throbbing energy. Juxtaposition of sound layers, either warlike or extatic, give to the album an heavy atmosphere that won’t leave you till the end. The indissoluble “Ignore” where synthesizers, sounds of water and other grinding merge to form an hypnotic unflinching and growing loop, or “Only lost in the sound” a real descent into the mystic abyss. Each track reveals an emotional power (the wonderful “Pl ain White Butterfly”) telling strange stories which merge in these blessed place where only music is able to lead : guts and heart. The charisma of spoken-words master, Black Sifichi, particular and immutable, is the ultimate protagonist in this fifth album. Faithful to his unequaled art, he declaims texts with his charismatic voice which sticks perfectly to the “Burning Before Sunset” emotional universe. So this fifth album is undoubtedly a fundamental part to the Brain Damage discography, demonstrates once again the duet’s fierce determination to never repeat itself.