Dead Chic - Serenades & Damnation

But it's just not possible to have a voice like that!
A voice that carries pebbles, what do I say pebbles, rocks, reefs, boulders, mountains, entire massifs!
It's simple: add up the voices of Rod Stewart, Midnight Oil, Joe Cocker, Tom Waits of course and even Bror Gunnar Jansson, and you'll still be underneath the truth.
This voice is a hand that punctures your rib cage and crushes your heart! And you, poor masochist innocent, you love it and you ask for more.
It is therefore urgent to integrate several of their music into the soundtrack of the series Peaky Blinders!

Where does this rock band come from? In fact, it's almost what we call a supergroup [anchor to playlist], which relies above all on the union of Leeds singer Andy Balcon (whom I had already spotted in Heymoonshaker with "Take the Reins") and French guitarist Damien Félix (Catfish, Bigger). Added to this are a keyboardist and a drummer with equally eloquent CVs. How can you resist such an association of benefactors?

So this 1st album was widely awaited. I thought that one or two good tracks from the EP that preceded it would be included (randomly, "Good God" and "Les Fleurs Séchées"), well no, only have novelty! Who will complain about that?
It’s already quite a lot off the head from the 1st solo of Farfisa. And you haven't seen anything yet.

Like this simultaneous double-tune (chorus of "Paris"): that of the singer and that of the instruments. You keep one in mind, or the other, indifferently, because neither of the 2 is above the other.
Like this sexy female voice of Turkish Tuğçe Şenoğul, for a duet ("Mirage"), for which she also wrote the lyrics of her part, in Turkish.
Like this gesticulation almost approaching the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations ("¿Cuánto Cuesta?") and reminds me of the imagery of the band Black Bones.

The lyrics, mostly in Andy's mother tongue, except for a few misdeeds in Spanish (in "¿Cuánto Cuesta?" and "Hedonista"), in French (in the chorus of "Souvenir") and in Turkish (in "Mirage"), tell in veiled words stories of preachers and prophets, of "Romances", of freedom and exile, of departed loves that remain in memory. Without ever neglecting the rhyme, which is not so common in English songs.
Small comments between the songs, taken on the fly during the recording sessions, made in live conditions, make the case even more alive, as if it were still necessary to prove it.

A masterstroke, this intense and deep album, that knows how to remain exciting from A to Z. But it's just not possible to have an album like that!