Yodelice - What's the Cure?

Is it a coincidence that Yodelice is releasing an invigorating album, full of good bass lines and entitled What's the Cure? at a time when... the Cure is releasing a new album 16 years after the previous one? I like to think not.

That being said, what is the relationship between this album and its predecessor, released barely 2 years earlier? Almost none. I had seen The Circle as a desire to return to the folk source of the Yodelice project. In itself, why not, except that 10 times the same song based on mmmmh, he hadn't forced his talent too much, the single would have been enough. The folk revival of Jil Is Lucky – an artist revealed at the same time – was more well done.
Now, with hindsight, I wonder if Yodelice didn't already have the electro-rock songs from this album in store simultaneously. 2 very different musical styles that could not coexist in the same record and therefore had to be released in 2 stages.
For my part, I think rock suits him better. Because Yodelice remains a marvel of an electric guitarist, in his solos ("Desert Song", "Cutting Like a Knife", "Hope") as well as in his riffs ("What's the Cure?", "Bliss"), and it is paradoxical that his biggest (only?) hit is in the acoustic folk vein ("Sunday with a Flu" in 2009, as a reminder).
He is also an outstanding arranger-producer, for his own account as well as for other artists (Jain, Johnny Hallyday), gifted with a real talent for creating sound textures of great richness.

With its magic briefcase, What's the Cure? is a good illustration of this.
On the programme: the rehabilitation of the "ooh yeah" sample ("Cutting Like a Knife"), a zazou twist ("Desires Never Die"), a frenzied hymn to difference ("What's the fuss?"), programming from elsewhere, slap and vigor everywhere.
It would be a bit too much indeed, if he included a nice well-sung ballad of which he has the secret ("Ghostly Affair"), which will remind the most connoisseurs of his "Familiar Fire". Oh how good it is to lose yourself with him in this ghost love story!
Concerned about the state of the world, but still hopeful ("Hope"), you want to continue to bet on a new world, as you will continue to bet on Yodelice. Is it a coincidence? I like to think not.