{"product_id":"dominique-a_vers-les-lueurs_2024_wag","title":"VERS LES LUEURS","description":"In strange pairings in recent months (with Michel Delpech or Calogero), through re-releases in the style of a Pléiade edition (eight albums that rehash his studio performances, but enriched with unreleased tracks, re-interpretations, or concert excerpts), in the midst of a ceremonial tour (the little Dominique A, illustrated and explained to children), or nestled in the columns of ecstatic print media (the interpretation, increasingly brilliant, the poetry [which] takes on its full dimension), Dominique A is everywhere, and that's a good thing. But we wonder: what does that change for a singer whose vibrant importance within any new French chanson has always been inversely proportional to his media exposure? Let's agree that if this ninth album, recorded in Brussels, boldly prances into the limelight as one of the achievements of 2012, and if its creator claims with the same candid assurance some unusual influences (Nick Drake), this will only be a surprise for the absent-minded, and all those returning from an endless quarantine at the ends of the universe. In thirteen songs and an album as dense as a cry of love, then, the Nantes native offers a new collection of innervated songs, stretched beyond reason (\"Convoi\"), as yesterday, and, we can imagine, as tomorrow. Tightened choruses also, like a booklet sparse on details about the recording conditions or the session musicians: the singer actually chose to work with his stage band (Sébastien Buffet, Thomas Poli, Jeff Hallam), to which he adds, among others, keyboardist and arranger David Deuverte. All of this (and a few others) conducive to developing choruses that reveal new affections (for the winds and brass, wonderfully used in the very serpentine \"Loin du soleil\"), and old fevers: \"Close West\" with its primal and electric force, the peremptory and thrilling cavalcade of \"Rendez-nous la lumière\" - the program's first single - and its refined distinction directly from the polished perfection of some incunabulum by The Shadows, remind us that the boy is unparalleled in evoking the scent of trees with urban scansion. And rest assured: if it seems that (indiscretion) Dominique A is currently going through a period of intimate happiness, this does not prevent him from an induced defiance for the relationship with the other (\"La Possession\"), even if he grants it some curative virtues (\"Parce que tu étais là\"). The rest, all the rest, will also delight, from a quirky family that could indeed forge close ties with the best of Jean-Louis Murat, and all Christophe, to vocal parts mastered as we rarely have the opportunity to hear around here, through pyrotechnic and precise writing like a scalpel, as well as the radiant immodesty of an asserted gentleness (the conclusive \"Par les lueurs\"). Dominique A is not an arid author: \"Parfois j'entends des cris,\" a potential hit, could easily bring some color back to your favorite radio station. Simply, because it's him (and his natural, sumptuously stripped-down writing) and because it's us, today, \"Vers Les Lueurs\" stands out as the reference of the year. No less.","brand":"Dominique A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55315797803352,"sku":null,"price":23988141.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3596973581761_b2db344f-e645-4205-a0e8-6e1c6be68491.jpg?v=1765826475","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/dominique-a_vers-les-lueurs_2024_wag","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}