Two and a half years after a very successful first album, Feu! Chatterton is back with The Birder. The elegant dandy band gives us thirteen songs with lyrics and melodies always beautiful.
fire! Chatterton, this name surely appeals to you. fire! Chatterton is the death of the 18th century poet Thomas Chatterton, in modern version. Among their influences, we find Serge Gainsbourg, Pink Floyd but also Radiohead. In November 2015, after having scoured the Parisian halls a hundred times, the dandy group released its first album Ici le jour (a tout eneveli) surprising energy, poetry and rock entirely in French. The result will be a gold record, a nomination for the Victoires de la Musique and 200 concert dates including a sold-out Olympia. 2016 was the year of success for Parisians still in suits!
Lyrics as poetic as ever
Two years later, Fire! Chatterton returns with a second album called L'oiseleur. If the test of the second opus is always complicated for a group, it is far from having lost its feathers! The bird bird knows its beginnings during a trip to Andalusia and Italy. Gardens and cemeteries inspire the group for its first texts with strong themes: death, memory and nature. To make the album even more realistic, head to the Landes to record ambient sounds in a forest. Finally, back to a Parisian studio to refine the last touches.
And that's it, that's it! The end result is amazing, their texts are always their main quality. While most of the current French scene shuns the language of Molière, Feu! Chatterton reinvents it and makes it beautiful, lyrical and poetic. Led by the most dandy singer Arthur Teboul, the quintet always mixes genres as well. Rock, pop, a little electro: it becomes complicated to categorize them. As on the first album with Côte Concorde and La Malinche, this second album has its little rhythmic and catchy hits: Grace and Zone libre. One thing is certain: the group lets go, the bird takes flight. The two singles Ginger and L'ivresse prove it, with a radically different style but still powerful and a warm, hoarse and bewitching voice.
7/10
Listen:
Grace, Zone libre, L'ivresse
A rock prose to see live. Practical, the group will be in concert throughout the France from the end of the month, including three Bataclans on April 9, 10 and 11. Places are available here.
The bird bird will be available on March 9 on the Barclay label.
