Aurora - The Gods We can Touch
It’s very good, Aurora. Why didn’t I get down to this earlier? I don’t know. Of course I’d heard of her, and probably one track or 2, since months, but I hadn’t gone and listened to a full album. It is time that I catch up. And that you catch up too, maybe.Aurora is her real first name. She is Norwe...
Zaho de Sagazan - La Symphonie des Éclairs
Obsessing. Here is the adjective which matches best Zaho de Sagazan’s songs.But firstly what’s this name? It’s the real name of a young blond female singer coming from Saint-Nazaire (near Nantes). She claims to inherit from Barbara and Brel. And finds it funny to fill up all venues and festivals she...
Philip Selway - Strange Dance
Who would have believed it? Radiohead drummer releases an album far more melodic than all the side-projects of his sidekicks!And it isn’t even his first steps, for this is his 3rd solo album already. As a big fan of Oxford quintet up to The King of Limbs not included, I was attracted to his 1st albu...
City of Exiles - Dead in Hollywood
Here’s an album with a great deal of atmosphere, you’ve got to give it time of gaining ground to really appreciate it.One thing’s for sure: it makes a change from what you can hear in the media.What’s there? A danse macabre which would make Saint-Saëns jealous ("Cannibal Song"), a cool western, with...
Michel Françoise - Dévolution
At the end of the 80s, in the middle of ‘Cabrelmania’, to which I yielded too, I took an interest in people who were gravitating towards the star. And especially this young man, whose style came from nowhere, his hair flattened against his temple, whose electric guitars re-established rock legitimac...