Cornflakes Heroes are just like what their bandname suggests : playful and reckless, but also as dreamlike as pragmatic. The logical heirs of the likes of The Shins (for the light-hearted sense of humour) , “Wowee-Zowee”- era Pavement (for the “lo-fi but not really” eccentric indie-rock songwriting) and Sebadoh circa “Harmacy” (for the edgy, but nostalgic feel), Cornflakes Heroes are anything you’d want an indie-rock band to be. Also able to pull the brakes when the tension is palpable, our new-found heroes have recorded an intense and “cooler than cool” debut album: “Off with your heads!”, release in December 2006. Calling the listeners to leave everything they’re doing and bring out the craziness, the title of the album tells it all.

   Hardly two years after the release of their debut LP « Off with your heads ! » and more than fifty gigs in France which enabled them to polish their style in front of their audience, the mighty Cornflakes Heroes are back with a brand-new album: “Dear Mr Painkillers”. On the one hand, a logical sequel to “Off with your heads!” and the promise of new fertile directions, this second effort annihilates any preconceived ideas about indie rock made in France, as well as the fear of the blank page that is often linked to the dangerous second album. We attend in awe at this display of well-crafted songs, between disarticulated punk euphoria and dusty art-blues , through nearly joyful respite. The production duties were this time given to B.Lemoine at Minipop Studio in Paris, who succeeded in giving the band a round but edgy overall sound that perfectly suits their bittersweet endeavours, with meaningful lyrics that evoke darker themes than we would usually expect from the quartet, when the tunes are immediately identifiable.
   The Cornflakes Heroes deliver the goods on this second LP that will rock your ass big time, no doubt about it.