Fin De Siècle
Sans Titre
[Divine Comedy]

New comer at the very deserving label from Marseille, Divine Comedy (which released Land's first album "Opuscule"), this "Sans Titre" from the French duo Fin de Siècle will delight the melancholic and twilight ambiences' amateurs. Nostalgic and autumnal, the thirteen tracks of this (already) third album finely depict ancient landscapes, sepia memories of a time not yet troubled by the twenty century's great wars. A piano, a few samples, keyboards constitute the fragile framework of this intimist souvenirs' collection where an atonal voice that sometimes has some life breathed into it. Evoking childhood and nature, Fin de Siècle brushes against drama never falling into an abysmal pathos, favouring stealthy sigh of a discreet melancholy which reminds (in the content more than in the form) the first Collection of Arnell-Andrea. A mature and remarkably expressed work it would be a shame to miss.

Stéphane Leguay
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