How can we ever thank enough the wind of deranged change that blew Philippe Katerine to French chanson? It dusted off the genre and liberated it a little from such bulwarks as Gainsbourg, Barbara or Françoise Hardy.
Their inheritance remains, but the music is allowed to drift a little, for our Listening Pleasure.
Monsieur Lobster are a wonderful example of this nouvelle école, appropriating the New Wave, Vitalic, the soundtracks of François de Roubaix & Justice.
Monsieur Lobster is Nicolas's project, accompanied expertly by Alan Smithee on the double bass, Clothilde on the flute and Nat Stereden's ethereal vocals.
Although resolutely electronic, Monsieur Lobster don't neglect their lyrics, finely carved, reminiscent of the great Étienne Daho, sweeping from heart-wrenching and lacerating to love-at-first-sight sensuality.
The so-called guardians of the Temple of French Song Past Its Sell-By Date should try opening the windows and letting a light breeze composed by Monsieur Lobster float through.
Explosive or introspective, these tunes could take us to the seventh heaven.
Please watch out Harakiri's clip from Monsieur Lobster:
Seefeel : Quique MGMT : Oracular spectacular Simian Mobile Disco :Attack Decay Sustain Release The Emperor Machine:Vertical tones ans horizontal noise Discodéine:Texas gladiator Ep Bot'ox:Babylon by car/Tragedy symphony Ep Zombie Zombie:A land for renegades
MONSIEUR LOBSTER LOVE :
François de Roubaix
Serge Gainsbourg
Daniel Clowe
Wim Wenders
