PARADIGMES (2 vinyls)

Description

A pioneering and innovative French pop group since 2010, an undeniable benchmark celebrated both here and elsewhere, La Femme opportunely returns with "Foutre le bordel" (to paraphrase one of the fifteen tracks on "Paradigmes"), a third album that will finally warm up winter 2021. After the success of "Psycho Tropical Berlin" (2013) – crowned with a Victoire de la Musique award – and "Mystère" (2016), both critically acclaimed gold records, La Femme continues its journey towards independence with independent distributor IDOL and establishes new "Paradigmes" on an album of unparalleled variety, insane ambition, and dazzling richness. In perpetual motion, in constant effervescence, the four companions evolve with contemporary musical currents, borrowing from electro here, from rap there, without ever losing the sixties and seventies rock roots that inspired them in their beginnings on the Basque coast. At the forefront of a new French wave whose children and cousins are too numerous to count, La Femme has toured all territories for ten years, with nearly 500 concerts worldwide (including over a hundred in America). Awaited for five years, this eventful third album by La Femme, "Paradigmes," is drawn from a collection of a hundred songs the group has composed over a decade. Among these fifteen cleverly chosen tracks, some pieces are already classics. Keeping the most memorable and addictive parts, the two songwriters draw from their XXXL references (from Velvet to Kraftwerk, from Morricone to Moroder, from Gainsbourg to Marie et les garçons, from Beach Boys to Zouzou) to create a musical spectrum as varied as it is colorful. As usual, La Femme welcomes new and mysterious female voices to perform songs in the form of instant anthems ("Paradigme," "Cool Colorado"), generational hits ("Foutre le bordel," "Pasadena"), catchy refrains ("Nouvelle Orléans," "Disconnexion"), stateless tracks ("Le jardin en espagnol," "Foreigner en anglais"), and instrumental pieces ("Lâcher de chevaux"), playing with all styles, thwarting all pitfalls. With a band name resonating with the shifts in the male/female paradigm, La Femme once again composes the free, chaotic, unexpected, turbulent, joyful, uninhibited, and alternative soundtrack of our time. After a 2020 to be definitively forgotten, 2021 couldn't have started better than under the sign of La Femme, a band that blends the past with the present, while imagining the future.