REQUIN CHAGRIN (vinyl)

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name of one of his songs? Unless they are deliberately going against the grain, one doubts it. The big French pop music of the 1970s and 1980s is one of the (rare) references that this young quartet, which appeared online last year - and supported, like many of its underground counterparts, by La Souterraine compilations - does not claim. For the rest, their music harmoniously blends psychedelic pop, new wave, garage rock, guitars that are alternately sixties or eighties, sounds à la Indochine (Adélaïde), à la Elli et Jacno, but also à la Nico and The Velvet Underground (Rose). The female, but above all androgynous, voice is ethereal and lost in the limbo of the mix. But the dancing melodies prevail over the melancholy that could emanate from this voice, as elusive as smoke. - Valérie Lehoux