ADIEU GARY COOPER (vinyl)

Description

Recorded in one week, live takes and inspired performances give this first record a singular clarity. Sunny and bluish like dazzling reflections. Between simple ballads and dancing groove, between lullabies and dance floor killers, a complete album in French like we no longer expected. First album or not quite, Adieu Gary Cooper was founded on the ruins of Perrine et les Garçons, a garage-blues quintet (still in French) inspired by brilliant obscure French bands such as Marie et les Garçons, a Lyon band from the 80s. So not their first attempt, with unusual confidence they compose in the language of Molière as if the Velvet Underground had failed in Paris. Revisiting Gainsbouro-Bashungian atmospheres without artifice. Folk guitars and saturated guitars, classy lap steel, double vocals that recall country music crooners but also the energy of Black Lips, unexpected organ or moog, for 12 tracks and a secret. They brilliantly and humorously speak of the ambient unease, the distortions of couples, psychedelic deliriums or trans-genre. So many subjects evoked against a backdrop of drifting music take on an unexpected and funny meaning! The Velvet is present as in 95% of current rock, but the references are numerous beyond the classics. An immersion in the drifting world of West Coast Garage, in Neil Young’s deserts but also in the tape echoes of Spacemen 3, in the “early” Stephan Eicher or Christophe. But also a strong tendency to bend us under the tropics with this infinite and haunting lap steel guitar.