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BEC 5543921
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Following Night Moves (BEC 5156022/5156023, 2015) and Kid We Own The Summer (BEC 5156710/5156744, 2017) and its harmonious keyboards, H-Burns goes back to the quintessence of his music style: an impeccable songwriting praised internationally and an interpretation undeniably precise. To narrate in one album the only two stories worth being narrated -- the one about a man living his home, and the one about a man coming back to his home -- H-Burns (aka Renaud Brustlein) first matured his project isolated in a home-studio owned by French underground collective La Souterraine before bringing it to the studio with a team of musicians and engineers that he meticulously picked as usual: Earl Harvin from Tindersticks on the drums, Kate Stables from This Is The Kit as a vocal guest, Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Andy Shauf, etc.) for the mixing, etc. Understandably titled Midlife, this new album, recorded on analog tapes, tells the story of a man who looks back over the journey of his life, remembering his dreams of glory, the lost love stories, what he left behind from the others and from himself. "Sister" features Kate Stables. CD version comes in two-panel digisleeve; includes 12-page booklet.
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BEC 5543922
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LP version. Includes printed inner sleeve; Includes CD. Following Night Moves (BEC 5156022/5156023, 2015) and Kid We Own The Summer (BEC 5156710/5156744, 2017) and its harmonious keyboards, H-Burns goes back to the quintessence of his music style: an impeccable songwriting praised internationally and an interpretation undeniably precise. To narrate in one album the only two stories worth being narrated -- the one about a man living his home, and the one about a man coming back to his home -- H-Burns (aka Renaud Brustlein) first matured his project isolated in a home-studio owned by French underground collective La Souterraine before bringing it to the studio with a team of musicians and engineers that he meticulously picked as usual: Earl Harvin from Tindersticks on the drums, Kate Stables from This Is The Kit as a vocal guest, Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Andy Shauf, etc.) for the mixing, etc. Understandably titled Midlife, this new album, recorded on analog tapes, tells the story of a man who looks back over the journey of his life, remembering his dreams of glory, the lost love stories, what he left behind from the others and from himself. "Sister" features Kate Stables.
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BEC 5543806
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For those who like pop music and French music, it is getting hard not to know about Olivier Marguerit, aka Ô. He's played in countless acts from the new French pop scene, from Syd Matters to Mina Tindle, Thousand and Chevalrex. He's also highly praised by his peers and iconic French singers, such as Etienne Daho, and his first album Un Torrent La Boue (BEC 5156344/5156345, 2016), has been critically acclaimed by press, radio, and web journalists upon its release. With this new album, À Terre!, in which is imagine himself falling down only to bounce back stronger, Olivier Marguerit's once again demonstrates his talent to craft exhilarating pop melodies, confirming his status as one the keystones of the rising scene of the genre in France. CD version comes in two-panel digisleeve with matte finishing; includes 12-page booklet.
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BEC 5543807
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LP version. Gatefold sleeve with matte finish and printed inner sleeve; Includes CD. For those who like pop music and French music, it is getting hard not to know about Olivier Marguerit, aka Ô. He's played in countless acts from the new French pop scene, from Syd Matters to Mina Tindle, Thousand and Chevalrex. He's also highly praised by his peers and iconic French singers, such as Etienne Daho, and his first album Un Torrent La Boue (BEC 5156344/5156345, 2016), has been critically acclaimed by press, radio, and web journalists upon its release. With this new album, À Terre!, in which is imagine himself falling down only to bounce back stronger, Olivier Marguerit's once again demonstrates his talent to craft exhilarating pop melodies, confirming his status as one the keystones of the rising scene of the genre in France.
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BEC 5156710
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The record cover shows a woman walking towards dusk - or is it dawn? Two years after the success of Night Moves (BEC 5156022/5156023, 2015) - a wander through a threatening nocturnal Los Angeles - H-Burns returns with a new record for twilight. Kid We Own The Summer finds its identity between a few landmarks such as David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's California, the intimacy of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978), the relative calmness of Suicide's second album (1980), and the elegant melancholy of The National. In order to compose, Renaud Brustlein, aka H-Burns, decided to reinvent himself once again. He didn't repeat the live configuration that he used in 2013 with Off the Map (BEC 5162399/5161300), an "electric storm" recorded in Chicago, with a band, in a single week, with the legendary Steve Albini. For Kid We Own The Summer, the composer started working in his home studio, by gradual touches, because there's no place like home. The result is a melancholic, cinematic stroll across stories of misguided couples, unspoken words that end-up ruining people's lives, the pursuit of dangerous situations - like an elegy to the end of adolescence, leading to a place we're unsure of. Born from a keyboard, a piano and a beatbox, these ten songs were brought to light, as always with infinite delicacy, by impeccable guests-friends: strings by Bertrand Belin and vaporous keyboards by Denis Clavaizolle (Bashung, Murat, Daniel Darc); mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliot Smith, Beck) and mastered by the great Greg Calbi (Springsteen, Dylan, Paul Simon). Noisey said Night Moves was the perfect record for "all the cold and sad months to come." Kid We Own The Summer is a record for sleepless nights. CD version comes in digipak with two panels, a 12-page booklet.
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BEC 5156744
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LP version. Includes two CDs; CD one features the ten tracks on the studio album; CD two features the ten demo versions of the album; Comes in a gatefold sleeve. The record cover shows a woman walking towards dusk - or is it dawn? Two years after the success of Night Moves (BEC 5156022/5156023, 2015) - a wander through a threatening nocturnal Los Angeles - H-Burns returns with a new record for twilight. Kid We Own The Summer finds its identity between a few landmarks such as David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's California, the intimacy of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978), the relative calmness of Suicide's second album (1980), and the elegant melancholy of The National. In order to compose, Renaud Brustlein, aka H-Burns, decided to reinvent himself once again. He didn't repeat the live configuration that he used in 2013 with Off the Map (BEC 5162399/5161300), an "electric storm" recorded in Chicago, with a band, in a single week, with the legendary Steve Albini. For Kid We Own The Summer, the composer started working in his home studio, by gradual touches, because there's no place like home. The result is a melancholic, cinematic stroll across stories of misguided couples, unspoken words that end-up ruining people's lives, the pursuit of dangerous situations - like an elegy to the end of adolescence, leading to a place we're unsure of. Born from a keyboard, a piano and a beatbox, these ten songs were brought to light, as always with infinite delicacy, by impeccable guests-friends: strings by Bertrand Belin and vaporous keyboards by Denis Clavaizolle (Bashung, Murat, Daniel Darc); mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliot Smith, Beck) and mastered by the great Greg Calbi (Springsteen, Dylan, Paul Simon). Noisey said Night Moves was the perfect record for "all the cold and sad months to come." Kid We Own The Summer is a record for sleepless nights. CD version comes in digipak with two panels, a 12-page booklet.
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BEC 5156344
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Olivier Marguerit aka O has long been considered one of the best sidemen of French indie pop. As a permanent member of Syd Matters, he was used to drawing on his extensive background to highlight and boost the work of others -- until one day he decided to look out for himself. Following his 2015 EPs Ohm part1 and Ohm part2, O showcases his brilliant and erudite form of pop with his full-length debut, Un Torrent.
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BEC 5156345
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LP version in gatefold sleeve. Includes CD. Olivier Marguerit aka O has long been considered one of the best sidemen of French indie pop. As a permanent member of Syd Matters, he was used to drawing on his extensive background to highlight and boost the work of others -- until one day he decided to look out for himself. Following his 2015 EPs Ohm part1 and Ohm part2, O showcases his brilliant and erudite form of pop with his full-length debut, Un Torrent.
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BEC 5156282
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Pharaon de Winter was a relatively unsuccessful 19th-century painter from Northern France. Today it's the name of a band, but also the name of the song that changed its author's life. The ex-leader of the bands Toy Fight and (Please) Don't Blame Mexico (releasing with the latter First Aid (2006) and Concorde (2011), featuring the hit songs "The Protocol" and "Michel Foucault (Saved My Life)"), Maxime Chamoux's musical style could be placed somewhere between North American rock like Spoon or Neutral Milk Hotel and sophisticated British pop like Prefab Sprout or XTC. Then he decided to cut loose: "I was starting to get bored of indie rock and wanted something different," he explains. "I wanted to sing in French. I wanted to use more beautiful chords. For several months, I searched for a new shape and colour to give to these new songs. And one day, I had a kind of revelation. It was called Pharaon de Winter. From that day on, all the music I loved came together in a particular weave." Pharaon de Winter features ten songs naturally uniting influences ranging from the popular to the edgy: William Sheller's precise writing, Lucio Battisti's warmth, Steely Dan's refined groove, Arthur Russell's sense of adventure, Véronique Sanson's feel for melody...
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LP version. Pharaon de Winter was a relatively unsuccessful 19th-century painter from Northern France. Today it's the name of a band, but also the name of the song that changed its author's life. The ex-leader of the bands Toy Fight and (Please) Don't Blame Mexico (releasing with the latter First Aid (2006) and Concorde (2011), featuring the hit songs "The Protocol" and "Michel Foucault (Saved My Life)"), Maxime Chamoux's musical style could be placed somewhere between North American rock like Spoon or Neutral Milk Hotel and sophisticated British pop like Prefab Sprout or XTC. Then he decided to cut loose: "I was starting to get bored of indie rock and wanted something different," he explains. "I wanted to sing in French. I wanted to use more beautiful chords. For several months, I searched for a new shape and colour to give to these new songs. And one day, I had a kind of revelation. It was called Pharaon de Winter. From that day on, all the music I loved came together in a particular weave." Pharaon de Winter features ten songs naturally uniting influences ranging from the popular to the edgy: William Sheller's precise writing, Lucio Battisti's warmth, Steely Dan's refined groove, Arthur Russell's sense of adventure, Véronique Sanson's feel for melody...
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Two-and-a-half minutes of drums rolling under a whirlwind of cranky guitars and vocals arguing from the bottom of a 1990s boom box -- that's 51 Black Super. Eleven tracks and 30 minutes to cross the USA, from California with Pavement and Weezer to Ohio with Guided by Voices and The Raspberries... 51 Black Super isn't a band to get lost on its way, or in futilities. Written, composed, recorded in an emergency, with short and intense sessions, the debut album by 51 Black Super is made in the image of its creators: spontaneous and eager to get things out there. "Sounds like The Strokes with less cocaine and more facial hair," said a Californian rock critic after listening the two first few tracks. "A big compliment," he added, for good measure.
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LP version. Two-and-a-half minutes of drums rolling under a whirlwind of cranky guitars and vocals arguing from the bottom of a 1990s boom box -- that's 51 Black Super. Eleven tracks and 30 minutes to cross the USA, from California with Pavement and Weezer to Ohio with Guided by Voices and The Raspberries... 51 Black Super isn't a band to get lost on its way, or in futilities. Written, composed, recorded in an emergency, with short and intense sessions, the debut album by 51 Black Super is made in the image of its creators: spontaneous and eager to get things out there. "Sounds like The Strokes with less cocaine and more facial hair," said a Californian rock critic after listening the two first few tracks. "A big compliment," he added, for good measure.
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Pharaon de Winter, a 19th-century painter from Northern France, reappears in 2015 as a band led by Maxime Chamoux (Toy Fight), whose music exists in a genre between North American rock like Spoon or Neutral Milk Hotel and sophisticated British pop like Prefab Sprout or XTC. For Pharaon de Winter, Chamoux is joined by Thomas Pirot on drums, Raphael Ankierman on bass, and FX Guéant-Mata on guitar. The delicate voice of Mina Tindle also appears here and there, and Canadian musician Sandro Perri, whose 2011 album Impossible Spaces received an 8.3 rating from Pitchfork, has also joined the band.
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BEC 5156023
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LP version with CD included. He was known at first as a traditional singer-songwriter with simple arrangements of acoustic guitar and vocals, a French cousin to Will Oldham and Jason Molina. Then he became the leader of a rough and enraged band who recorded Off the Map (BEC 5161299/5161300, 2013), an electric storm of a record, with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. But the truth is we hadn't seen anything yet. H-Burns is back to prove once more that it's possible to stay true while endlessly reinventing oneself. Calmer, poppier, cleaner, more Californian, but still anxious and sorrowful, Night Moves was produced by the all too rare Rob Schnapf (who has previously worked with Beck, Elliott Smith, and Guided By Voices) with a group including A. A. Bondy (Verbena) and Troy von Balthazar (Chokebore). The result: 11 songs orchestrated around theme of nighttime in Los Angles. A restless and troubled night with the insidious threat of an earthquake lurking in the shadows. There are ghosts there too, those of Elliott Smith, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Roy Orbison, and Bruce Springsteen.
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He was known at first as a traditional singer-songwriter with simple arrangements of acoustic guitar and vocals, a French cousin to Will Oldham and Jason Molina. Then he became the leader of a rough and enraged band who recorded Off the Map (BEC 5161299/5161300, 2013), an electric storm of a record, with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. But the truth is we hadn't seen anything yet. H-Burns is back to prove once more that it's possible to stay true while endlessly reinventing oneself. Calmer, poppier, cleaner, more Californian, but still anxious and sorrowful, Night Moves was produced by the all too rare Rob Schnapf (who has previously worked with Beck, Elliott Smith, and Guided By Voices) with a group including A. A. Bondy (Verbena) and Troy von Balthazar (Chokebore). The result: 11 songs orchestrated around theme of nighttime in Los Angles. A restless and troubled night with the insidious threat of an earthquake lurking in the shadows. There are ghosts there too, those of Elliott Smith, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Roy Orbison, and Bruce Springsteen.
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