Quelqu'un dans mon genre

Description

"Quelqu'un dans mon genre" (Someone Like Me), My Concubine's fourth album. And it's with a lush melodic density and rich, delicate harmonic variety that the listener will have to contend. These songs speak of their author as much as they speak of everyone. Like My Concubine's previous two albums, "Quelqu'un dans mon genre" is produced by Yann Arnaud, known for having worked with Stephan Eicher, La Maison Tellier, and Jeanne Cherhal. The album sounds like a record amnesiac of past trends, and refusing to look towards those to come. Because yes, the music here is free, untamed. Certainly, there is a vintage pop tonality arranged to contemporary tastes, but My Concubine's musical color primarily passes through a prism where light and shadow play. Highly evocative, even cinematic, one can easily imagine My Concubine's music scoring a film. A film that would switch from comedy to tragedy in a snap of the fingers. The tracks on "Quelqu'un dans mon genre" oscillate between indie pop frenzy and depth, particularly thanks to inspired lyrics and haunting arrangements. Eric Falce's shimmering voice, Lizzy Ling's playful one, melodic elasticity, and rhythmic agility give the band a dimension of uninhibited freedom, allowing them to reinvent and appropriate Brigitte Fontaine's song "Ah que la vie est belle" (Oh How Beautiful Life Is), who gave her permission to appear in the music video for this song. Previously, there was the music video "Dragon" starring Denis Lavant, Léos Carax's favorite actor, in the main role. Ultimately, My Concubine redefines the contours of elegant French pop, which definitively has nothing to envy of its Anglo-Saxon counterparts.