Le futur c'est la drogue by Christophe Clébard
There is a question that has always made me a bit anxious to answer which is how much essence and contents you can squeeze out of the genre and its cliches. Well, maybe we have an answer here on the newest album by Christophe Clébard. He has been pounding on many idioms, and one of them is probably or most definitely: synth punk. The whole production is set against synthesizers and the hypnotic beats that Chris elaborately created here. It has a heated up atmosphere of something that you would find present in early 80’s when Cabaret Voltaire, Soft Cell, Chris and Cosey were working. It has the dynamics and the balance of both pop and punk but transported into some interesting heat of synth based sounds and enough experimentation to keep it a white knuckle ride. An excellent album for any occasion but also a great reminder that some formulas never get old and especially when you put it into the right context. EN He describes himself as follows: “Clébard is brutalism.” The term sug...
