Igorrr - Headbutt (Official Video)
Igorrr smashing a piano, a choir, breakcore beats and metal guitars into one track. Gautier Serre doesn't make music. He builds controlled demolitions.
Igorrr released another track that refuses to sit in any genre box. “Headbutt” is Gautier Serre doing what he does best. Taking elements that shouldn’t coexist and forcing them together until they create something entirely new. Breakcore electronics, metal guitar riffs from Martyn Clement, unhinged vocals from JB Le Bail, and a full choir directed by Stephan Nicolay. All in one track. All somehow making sense.
The video is raw studio footage. No storyline. No narrative structure. Just musicians in a room doing violent things to their instruments. At one point a piano gets destroyed. Not metaphorically. Actually smashed. It’s the kind of visual that perfectly captures what Igorrr is about. Creation through destruction. Beauty through chaos.
Serre’s production is what holds this together. Any lesser producer would turn these ingredients into a mess. He layers the electronic glitches over the blast beats, weaves the choir through the distortion, and somehow finds pockets of space where each element gets room to breathe before the next wave hits. It sounds chaotic on first listen. By the third time through, you start hearing the architecture underneath.
Photography by Svarta Photography captures the raw energy. Nothing polished. Nothing staged to look cool for a press release. Just a group of musicians pushing their instruments past the breaking point, literally in the case of that piano.
Igorrr is one of those projects where you either get it immediately or you don’t. No middle ground. “Headbutt” won’t convert the sceptics. But for those of us already on board, it’s another confirmation that Serre operates on a frequency most artists can’t even hear.