TOUT NAIT - TOUT S'ACHEVE PAR UN DISQUE (vinyl)

Description

After the urges to Repopulate from a first attempt (Repeupler, IDA 2016), the second album was almost called Il Fiasco, for the global failure represented by our lives alone and together in networks, plastic loves, the arrogance of masculinity, and aborted reconciliation attempts. Another oil spill. Then, as always, I listened to records, many records, sometimes even too many. I carefully dissected them, twisted them, then took out my scissors, my notebooks, and called my comrades. I then understood that I had to drive the point home, tell the story again, and make the sounds work. It was going to be terrible, and the subsequent regrowth of couch grass would be difficult. The minimum kit for a revolution on the scale of an album. Everything was there, right under our ears. "It's an Unidentified Sound Object, Gontard! unfolds a strange, wild, and at times quite ferocious diary in his songs. He is a pop artisan who uses a hip-hop method adept at 'me, myself, and I,' a pirate with a sharp tongue." Didier Varrod (France Inter) "Gontard! and his very low-fidelity hip-hop turn out to be much more complex, even disturbing than expected. This is due to a few dark tide phrases, to some samples so out of context that they border on eugenics." J.D. Beauvallet (Les Inrocks)