Artist.......: Christine and The Queens
Album........: Redcar les adorables Θtoiles (EnregistrΘ au Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione)
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS (France4 on 2023-01-09)
Rip.date.....: 2023-01-10
Live.date....: 2022-11-22
Quality......: 225kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: https://christineandthequeens.com/
track title time
1. Redcar les adorables Θtoiles 71:12
(EnregistrΘ au Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione)
Runtime 71:12
Size 114.93
Release Notes:
After Chris of Christine and the Queens' mother died, the French alt pop star
began to notice red cars everywhere and almost always in moments of internal
shift. Those sightings give context to the title of his third album, Redcar les
adorables Θtoiles (prologue), and inspired the name and artistic persona he
would embrace thereafter. "For me, the red car was a way to encourage my spirit
to lift a bit higher when I was a bit desperate," he tells Apple Music's Zane
Lowe. "Every record is a deep, deep wave of transformation both inwards and
outwards. I feel actually braver than before, a bit terrified, but in a true
gutsy way."
Redcar the follow up to 2018's Chris presents the artist's most thrilling
transformation to date. It's also the most daring Christine and the Queens album
so far: a high concept collection of roof raising '80s synth pop and funk
inspired by artists such as The Cure and Fad Gadget. Sung almost entirely in
French, it's theatrical (the propulsive, operatic "Tu sais ce qu'il me faut"),
spooky ("La chanson du chevalier"), shimmering, sensual, and frequently
otherworldly, with electrifying guitar solos and R&B along the way.
And yet, for all its '80s hallmarks drum machines, dazzling synths, songs
cloaked in reverb (a throwback, too, to 2014 debut Chaleur Humaine) the album
was crafted with a rock 'n' roll spirit in mind. Moved by the spontaneous
artistic process of Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, Chris wrote, recorded,
and produced this album alone at home within just two weeks, spending no more
than an hour on each song. The result is an album that feels epic and alive, and
often like an outpouring, as an artist who has always committed to evolving in
front of us moves through change.
After the farewell to a lover or a past self of album opener "Ma bien aimΘe bye
bye," these songs explore intimacy, the search for meaning and connection
(including the Sylvester referencing "Looking for love"), and stepping into your
true self. Loss, too, colors the album, but on "rien dire" one of the album's
most powerful songs, and as much of a gut punch as 2020's "People, I've been
sad" Redcar reaches a hopeful conclusion: Love, and the people we love, are
never truly gone. "I think true love is a conversation that never is
interrupted, and by ænever' I mean not even by death," he says. "That's my
current faith I have right now. That song is a conversation I have with someone
who is not there anymore."