Là-haut

Description

The new album by Gérald Genty is finally here: crafted lyrics, perfect arrangements, melodies worthy of English pop, here is a big surprise, and a masterwork. There you go, he did it. This record about the end, disappearance, the one he was thinking of when the urgency to capture the fragile voices of his two young sons ultimately prompted him to go all the way with the short format of the album Hippopopopopopopopopopopotame. Gérald Genty's previous records always included one or two of these short songs, but also one or two more serious ones: the desire to fully explore these two forms explains why Là-haut is now arriving, which can be described as a concept album. This new album by Gérald Genty places him in the lineage of Albin de la Simone, M, Mathieu Boogaerts, or even Souchon/Voulzy. Subtle writing, careful melodies and arrangements, Gérald Genty has just given us the great album that all those who have been following him for a while anticipated. Because while it is still too early to guess what the trajectory of this new musical aircraft launched by Gérald Genty will be, let’s admit that as a sort of twist, it would be a nice irony for a record about disappearance to ultimately be an album that will remain.