{"product_id":"gable_pick-the-weak-vinyl_2024_lad","title":"PICK THE WEAK (vinyl)","description":"Suffice to say that in twenty years, Gaëlle, Mathieu and Thomas have done a bit of everything, seen it all, infecting the small and large stages of Europe and beyond with their beautiful madness. Always on the fringes of the French pop scene, which owes them a lot, the trio from Normandy had become rarer over the last three years since the end of their Comicolor tour, a film concert performed over a hundred times. It was time, after all, to take a breather. To think about what's next and dive back into the eternal question: How do you maintain the ability to get lost in your own world when you've traveled it so often? How do you preserve the candor of your art after twenty years of passionate activism? - - To reinvest in this wacky engineering, this art of joyful chaos that became their signature, GaBLé took their time. Two years of composition and the contribution of fellow musicians, among them Funken from Tours. A kind of sound osteo-prosthetist equipped with drum machines, modular synthesizers, and an unparalleled knack for tinkering, he, as on JoLLy TrouBLe, brought new colors to the group's sonic palette. - - And the result lives up to the work undertaken. Whether on the irresistible ‘We LooK aWay’ or on ‘IT MaKeS SeNSeS,’ a kind of Beach Boys on ether, GaBLé unfolds its finest DIY-pop here, wandering through all registers, assembling like Legos transverse flutes and bassoons, electronic trinkets, synthesizers and dented percussion, voice samples simmered in a court-bouillon. You think you see the ghost of the Beatles in overalls on ‘SpeCiaL CoNTaiNeRs’ and you even enjoy encountering, for real, on the remarkable and intricate ‘SHaReD’ the group Meridian Brothers, the Cumbia diabolical twin of the Caennais. In barely thirty minutes, the ten tracks flow one after another, bursting into bubbles of color like small Martian symphonies, dancing, captivating, melancholic, and happy. The album concludes with a sunny ‘PoNyTaiL,’ like a serene injunction to the joy of existing, of creating. - - Deeper than its predecessors, impressive in its production and arrangement work, PiCK THe WeaK is a beneficial album, a comfort blanket you can long rely on. But it is also the conscious exercise of a group that, to penetrate passing time, to hold it still in its nets, has managed to overcome its doubts, rediscover the taste for urgency and reunions. Its songs are like paintings teeming with details, composing a bushy and incredibly coherent canvas at the same time, in which we enjoy getting lost and found again. And to savor this exciting chemistry that we no longer expected and that we had still missed so much. Thank you GaBLé. - - Romain Benard","brand":"GaBLé","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310246904152,"sku":null,"price":23980125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381579062_2818682d-c446-41ee-9afb-f82ab1e75017.jpg?v=1760318482","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/gable_pick-the-weak-vinyl_2024_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}