la Maison Tellier - Timidité des Arbres

“Do you think another album will change everything?”
Things are moving at La Maison Tellier.
After being the same band for 18 years, it has 2 member changes in 2 albums (drummer and bassist). We will return to this.
Another mini novelty, this time their real names are written on the cover. Are the masks falling?

For the rest, it's still Tellier, with the 2 friends Yannick [Helmut Tellier] and Sébastien [Raoul Tellier] at the helm who write and compose all the songs.
While Primitifs Modernes had sketched out a small change of direction, a little more pop-rock, Atlas had shown a desire to return to the band's folk roots. The 8th album here is clearly the sequel... For the better. What do we hear?

Give me some heavy!
With "En Moi le Chaos", Yannick could give a good lesson of soundbites to all today’s young rappers. This text, after all much more political than sexual, I can't get over it. To put it simple, I could have copied it in full in my "The sentence" section.
Cynicism also has its share ("Damocles").
A clever mix of opposites on an ostinato arpeggio holding the whole track ("Là Où Je Vis") also stacks its solid wood in the trailer.

Give me some light too.
From the necessary and sufficient homage to Jean-Louis Murat ("La Chanson de Jean-Louis") to a springtime "Ballade du Vieux Garçon" – Vieux Garçon being the name of Yannick's solo project – via love and its mariachi group ("Love Again"), the bearded man is not the only one to whistle this time: we meet a lot of birds. Normal, in the trees. They’re heard as much talked about (the word 'oiseaux' is counted 5 times).
Hey, wait... isn't it a rumba that I catch here ("Tout le Monde")?

All the songs of the album are divided into either heavy or light. All except one ("La Timidité des Arbres"). By playing on the 2 courts, it constitutes the least common multiple. Or the greatest common divisor – it depends. And so quite naturally the title of the opus (except for the article).

You will notice that you hear a beautiful voice that ages well like good wine, perfectly mastering its art and carrying the subject more than ever: imagine some of these words in another mouth and you will probably fall very low.
However, you cannot limit this Famous Five to its singer, or even to the complicity of the singer and the guitarist.
The band's "2nd duo", the one of its rhythm section (drummer Mathieu [Jeff Tellier] and bassist Blandine [Betty Tellier]), may be brand new, but it already holds the house very well. I mean, it holds La Maison. This is house insurance.
And finally, trumpeter Frédéric [Léopold Tellier] brings that little extra, a real trademark of the band since the beginning.
For the sake of completeness, I must mention a few visitors for a day: Karen Lano ("La Timidité des Arbres"), Louis-Jean Cormier ("Veni, Vidi, Vixi"… and not "La Chanson de Louis-Jean"!) and Glenn Arzel (another Arzel!)
Because things are moving at La Maison Tellier.