Ready for the new world?
We've been waiting for something new from Feu! Chatterton for a while. It's not that they've been away for long, just we've been impatient.
With good reason. Their two albums, 2015's Ici le jour (a tout enseveli) and 2018's L'Oiseleur are among our faviourites in recent years, each a heady mix. Rooted in French poetic lyricism, but inhabiting a jazz-informed indie rock landscape that few others dare venture into without falling face first into the swamp of pretentiousness or tumbling into the chasm of joyless self-indulgence.
Yes, it's a bit arty, but they walks that fine line with a swagger and don't take themselves too seriously. It's hard to imagine a band like this from any other country.
If anything makes us hopefuly for 2021, its that fine bands like this have started to re-emerge from isolation and hibernation. The world might be new, different and unfamiliar, but it's been waiting for them to make it a little bit better.
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