{"product_id":"papapla_sounds-of-papapla-vol-2_2022_mdl","title":"Sounds Of Papapla Vol. 2","description":"Raised on 90s rock, brought up on post-rock and film scores, and nourished by third-millennium electronica, Papapla delivers, with Soundsof Papapla Vol. 2, a stripped-down, powerfully accomplished album. Frenchamericana? Hexagonal electro-slowcore? West Coast indie-pop-rock? Everyone can choose their own label: the music speaks for itself. Papapla's songs have a cinematic power: that of instantly transporting us into images, characters, a story, delivered with a clever economy of means. A literal translation of \"Flat Daddies,\" these cardboard effigies meant to replace American GIs far from their families, \"Papapla\" is a term both endearing and unsettling, struck with an electric strangeness. In this beautiful album, one hears echoes of Sparklehorse, Mogwai, or Slowdive, and, since it's French song, one thinks of Bertrand Belin's *Hypernuit*, Bashung's *Fantaisie Militaire*, or Michel Houellebecq's *Présence Humaine*. With Soundsof Papapla Vol. 2, the band continues its peaceful transformation, begun after Volume 1, released in 2018: exclusively French lyrics, 2 then 3 then 4 musicians allowing the duo's sonic palette to be broadened without changing course. Through stories drawn from everyday life or its periphery, \"true\" or fantasized stories, the themes are recurrent: vignettes on solitude, the future hanging over us, life's accidents. The quartet's ambition remains that of the duo: to find the right note and the right word to tell their stories. The core of the band consists of Thierry Lolon, former leader of Band of Ghosts, and Martial Hardy, co-founder of the Les Disques Normal label (Bumpkin Island, Kalamar Superstar, Mermonte, Chapi Chapo et les Petites Musiques de Pluie, Lady Jane...). A certain idea of French rock.","brand":"papapla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55311890055512,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3700604741244.jpg?v=1760405617","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/papapla_sounds-of-papapla-vol-2_2022_mdl","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}