Une minorité éclairée le sait : Vive la Fête , le groupe de Danny Mommens (ex-dEUS), Els Pynoo (la libido personnifiée) et leurs compagnons, est depuis quelques années le meilleur groupe live d’Europe Occidentale. On connait l’histoire : résolu à monter un groupe electro-pop-kitsch il y a quelques années, ce couple à la ville décida de chanter dans une langue qu’ils ne maîtrisaient pas ou peu : le français, parce qu’elle résonnait avec l’univers qu’il se proposaient d’habiter, l’extravagance glamour lookée.
Je vous propose aujourd’hui de découvrir deux extraits du nouvel album, sorti en Belgique mais pas encore dans le reste du continent, Grand Prix .
Petite Putain
commence par un orage et se poursuit dans les vitrines glauques d’un red-light district
post-moderne et criard. Serait-ce le premier morceau de VLF à proposer une certaine profondeur thématique ?
Tu connais la dernière est construit sur une progression d’accords et une distorsion de guitare très Plastic-Bertrandienne. Hommage voulu ou inconscient ? Très efficace à tout le moins.
En définitive, Grand Prix n’est pas aussi explosif que l’indispensable Nuit Blanche , le précédent album, il lui manque un ou deux tubes disco-punk imparables, et un peu plus d’ingénuité, mais c’est tout de même un excellent disque contenant plusieurs pépites.
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As you probably know, the new album from post-hippie Devendra-friendly duo CocoRosie is announced to be released in next september, and is called Noah’s Ark .
A few of our audioblogger colleagues have already featured some tracks from it, the mighty and much-admired over here Sean from Said the Gramopome first and foremost with the track called Bisounours.
We, at La Blogothèque, were among the first around here to claim our love for the band’s first album and the following and wonderful european tour. This is why I have to state it here : Noah’s Ark is a catastrophy. It is, as Troy from Of the record stated it in Fluxblog‘s comments, “kind of like telling the same joke too many times”. The opinions inside La Blogotheque diverge with regards to the extent to which it is terrible (from not very good to excruciatingly bad), though, but the disappointement is shared.
Moreover, my opinion is that this one track, Bisounours , is the worse piece of music ever released by a respected band in 2005 (of course , this Passe-Partout dwarf song is even worse). It has sometimes been said that non-anglophone people would love english-speaking songs that had lame lyrics, without knowing it. I conjure my non-francophone readership not to commit the same mistake, and here’s the translation of the “rapping” of the MC that takes most of the song :
There was a time when nothing was unlit when only the gold of my heart would give the time
and then i was strong but i have lost the flower and the innocence
in this setting i feel lost ’cause nothing has got anymore sense
i still have a few dreams as long as i’m given enough time
i’ll go and carress their lips
i still have a few dreams as long as i’m given enough time
i’ll go and carress their lips
There was a time when nothing was unlit when only the gold of my heart would give the time
and then i was strong but i have lost the flower and the innocence
in this setting i feel lost ’cause nothing has got anymore sense
And, oh God, when Sierra does her diva singing, it becomes unbearable. Do you want to know what this track conveys to me ? Nightwish meets MC Solaar.
(Okay, okay, South 2nd , Armageddon or Honey Or Tar are good songs.)
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