Katzenjammer Kabarett, a young French four-piece, returns with their second release - Grand-Guignol & Variétés- and a firmer pop approach mixing incredible stories and catchy melodic hooks. Be it deathrock, electro, punk or dark-cabaret, they are here to charm you, seduce you, and leave you merrily twitching to their infectious songs. About the musical style, perhaps the best is to guess it for yourself! Mary Komplikated's sultry vocals ride atop their Dadaesque, Avant-Garde blend of sounds: the din created by Herr Katz, Klischee and Mr. Guillotine. On this follow-up to their 2006 debut (reissued on Projekt), Katzenjammer Kabarett (this French band with a German name and English lyrics) shows their sensibility for the diletante and frivolous aesthetic of several past movements. Their compositions revel in varied and various collages, utilizing electronic, pop, deathrock, and classical-music sounds as well as traditional cabaret songs to generate the peculiar atmosphere one probably found in old fashioned Lieder (the German art songs from the Nineteenth-century). A considerable part of their work comes from second-hand elements borrowed from several preceding movements and styles, but whose signs had been systematically altered and distorted. Thus, the music composed by Klischee, supported by H.K..'s lyrics and Mr. Guillotine's necessary pragmatism, creates an alchemy with the carefree Miss Mary K's voice and theatrical singing which embodies all the magic, the cynism and the absurdity of the hangover cabaret. released on projekt and available January 13th, 2009.

1. Jack's parade
2. Hidden & sick
3. 10 years
4. Percy has returned (the story of Percy, 3rd & last part)
5. Nothing but His
6. At the Sunlight Sanatorium
7. The real gentleman or the mad lover
8. Once Eliot turned ugly in his lover's bed
9. Wondered colonel killed couple
10. Collage
11. Romance
12. 45