The singer-keyboardist Adèle Trottier-Rivard and the guitarist Nicolas Basque find their balance in a subtle chiaroscuro, lit by a delicate writing.
Dark, dreamy, incandescent. That’s what our small dictionary of adjectives suggests as we listen to Bibi Club’s new album. And what a record.
Staidly titled Amaro, a name with hints of love, the ensemble seems literally haunted by the idea of death, yet also swept by a vast and very beautiful fury of living. All carried by bilingual writing, at once delicate and imagery-rich.
Amaro contains an inexhaustible strength and love
Across the eleven tracks in which the influences of a band like Blonde Redhead are apparent, the singer-keyboardist Adèle Trottier-Rivard and the guitarist Nicolas Basque find their balance in a fine chiaroscuro, bringing together a multitude of styles: dream pop, cold wave, psychedelia, dark folk.
This subtle, shadowed blend mainly hides a mantra that allows, despite everything, to surpass the idea of finitude through the communion of hearts: “I want to love, I want to live.”
An album mournful if there ever was one, Amaro nonetheless contains an infinite strength and love that shine through each of the songs, whether they sink into feverish and dancing waters (Amaro, Les Vagues, Washing Machine) or evolve under low and cloudy skies (Le Château, Cérémonie).
Also to be noted is a beautiful production work, which gives real coherence to this palette of textures and reveals, at the heart of this depth-filled music, frank breakthroughs of light.
Amaro (Secret City Records/Modulor). Release on February 27. In concert at Point Éphémère, Paris, on April 16.
