A quick summing up of where we are at the end of 2023 and
where we might be going in 2024 from Gwendoline.
The track comes from the forthcoming second album C'est à moi ça from the Breton duo of Pierre
Barrett and Mickaël Olivette, a piece where cold wave synths collide with a dispassionate
narration and a punk attitude, irony and
anger. They describe it as a “Gloomy inventory and review of the setbacks of a
kamikaze humanity which seems to be heading straight towards catastrophe.”
Meanwhile, the video - a whirlwind of images that bears repeated watching in case you missed anything, manages to look simultaneously like a slickly produced marketing campaign and a hand-made video collage made from flicking through cable TV channels.
The notes on the video contents make a pretty detailed read:
Millitary parade at the Kremlin, military parade in North Korea, 14th July military parade, influencers in Dubai, abattoirs, Amazon deforestation, self-defence classes, Patrick and Isabelle Balkany (Former mayor of Levallois-Perret who was sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion), the CRS (French riot police) in Burger King, champagne in a night club, rich people in Courcheval, the CRS in the Jungle camp in Calais, the CRS with the Gilets Jaunes, military parade in China, the G7, security guards in France, the war in Iraq, Americans and pollution, pollution in India, the worst prisons in America, the Ku Klux Klan, America’s passion for firearms, women in Saudi Arabia, the Le Pen/Darmanin debate, Black Friday in France, England and the USA, fights outside night clubs, jet skis and yachts, Russians fighting, Donal Trumo visiting the Queen of England, Altice (French media/communications company) on the stock market, boat party, Cop 27, famine in Africa, Palestine, Didier Lallement (politician and former Paris Chief of Police) , Syria, refugees on the Turkish border, the CRS, (former Prime Minister) François Fillon
Gwendoline’s debut LP Après C’est Gobelet! was released in 2020 and re-issued two years later, with Saint-Valentin released as a stand-alone track in February this year.
C'est à moi ça is released on March 1 2024. Keep a note of it for your album of the year list for this time next year.
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