L'importance de l'hiver

Description

"Make your voice heard / Free yourself from all the false battles / Hope is a dish best served cold / The obvious is not there to dictate its law to us": the song L’Importance de l’hiver may remind us, in a few years, of what helped us get through the year 2020: hearing "the summer wind singing in the distance," guessing the hope of flowers under the frost of the cold season, all while acknowledging the troubling paradox that "we kill caterpillars but we love butterflies."
Debout sur le Zinc offers us the poetry of its new songs, with colors that are both so unique and so familiar – a universe where a common territory is invented between the writing of the masters of French song, the elegant simplicity of Anglo-Saxon folk, and the friendly energy of rock…
With this tenth studio album, the group confirms its unique place in the French musical landscape – a singular bond of friendship with its audience, as if Debout sur le Zinc were the friend who always knows how to put words to the experiences and sensations that usually remain in the realm of the intimate. L’Importance de l’hiver is an album that speaks of us, a people with melancholic moods and sudden smiles, with gently crazy love and patient passions, with political discouragement and fraternal momentum.