SOMETHING GOOD

Description

Quelque Chose de Bien, KCIDY's third LP, released by Vietnam on January 19, 2024, evokes the morning after the party. Although some of the fourteen tracks it contains can set the mood for your best bashes and surprise parties, it speaks of the morning coffee, the big cleanup, the search for a happiness that is less fleeting and more substantial ("not joy but fullness"). This time, it places KCIDY on the side of "Happy People," the title of the previous album, fully aware of the banality of good, and amused by it. However, KCIDY did not create this album alone; once again, it features Leslie Chanel (Tôle Froide) for the lyrics of Silence et Tendresse and Marion Josserand (JOKARI) for Petit Bonhomme and the co-writing of Je Pense A Toi and J’ai Tant Attendu. The studio musicians, who were also present on the previous record, fully participated in the final rendering of the album. Mathias Chirpaz on guitars (The Wow Signal), Florian Adrien on drums (Neptune Football Club, Biche), and Rémi Richarme on bass (Satellite Jockey) notably shaped the warm and organic sound of L’Absolu, Italie, and Toutes Les Chansons Du Monde. Romain Clisson mixed the record at Durango studio (Gaël Faye, Ben Mazué, Peter Von Poehl, Armand Méliès). Quelque Chose de Bien is not "the album of maturity," but an album about maturity, the grieving (not necessarily sad) of certain phases of existence to welcome what comes next, all while knowing that nothing ever truly ends ("I left, but I'm thinking of you").