Homo alien

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Cock Robin, the band behind the timeless hits “Where Your Heart Is Weak” and “The Promise You Made,” is back with its 7th album, Homo Alien. Homo Alien is the first album on which Peter Kingsbery is joined by singer-keyboardist Coralie Vuillemin and drummer Didier Strub. Despite this fresh blood, Cock Robin’s distinctive sound is immediately recognizable, what Peter Kingsbery calls “the universal melancholy that makes you believe in hope when there is none left.” The album title Homo Alien, a song co-written with Vuillemin, evokes science fiction books. It tells the story of a human being who has left Earth and is trying to explain to an alien the violence and madness of mankind. “Be my friend homo alien. This blood on my hands is from a time untold light years from here.” An American pop-rock band founded in the 1980s in Los Angeles, Cock Robin quickly achieved international success with hits such as “When Your Heart Is Weak” and “The Promise You Made.” Their singer Peter Kingsbery would go on to earn gold and platinum records with the band thanks to his superb voice and a keen sense of composition and arrangement. In the 1990s, he took part in Tycoon, the English-language adaptation of Starmania. There he performed “Only The Very Best,” which reached the top of the charts in France. “This will be a different album from the others, because I decided to make it with two French musicians, Coralie Vuillemin (vocals/keyboards) and Didier Strub (drums). We worked on the arrangements together. And even three songs that I wrote with Coralie, including one titled like the album, Homo Alien. Sometimes I had the feeling that I was at the beginning of my career, making an album as a band, with the desire to please myself and of course to please the audience, but also to please the two other members of the band. I wanted them to be proud of their album with me. I play bass, I write songs, and I also play electric guitar, and I based all my arrangements on that. I wanted something with a more rock spirit, also because my drummer likes rock, and I wanted to please him too.” --- Peter Kingsbery ---