After the organic and flamboyant “Permafrost”, this new opus reveals another facet of its author, which contains a multitude of them. Alongside his musical career, Nesle is also an actor for the small and big screen, inexhaustible passionate about indie rock as much as literature, activist, with the Festival, the Soirées and the Cafés Walden, of a new French-speaking scene which he seems to keep himself on the sidelines, hyperactive dandy-punk or gentleman of Parisian life…
By soaking up all these personalities, his new album “Arsenic” lifts the veil on a strange world that we watch burn away dancing. An experience that engulfs you. No one will come out alive from this little apocalypse, where the acoustic rhythms and the electronic pads dispute in a constantly shaky derivation between shadow and twilight.
Directed by Alain Cluzeau, already at the helm behind Permafrost, this new album raises sonic ambitions even higherexploring in music the possible recesses of rock or folk sounds stranded on the shores of electronics, as the texts explore those of lost childhood, the failings of the soul or the end of humanity.
This disc does the choice not to choose between day and night, between rock and song, between earth and sky. And in an ultimate paradox that borders on mystery, it reveals an energy, a thirst for life, a momentum that makes hope blossom in the heart of the ashes, beauty in the heart of the bitumen. Better than a providential poison, Arsenic could be the ultimate antidote.