What is subversive in 2022? Standard rock. Good guitars, good choruses, no fuss. Rock. Not even in the mat like Gros Méné. A little Springsteen oldschool, Tom Petty first era: the not complex but damn effective way of a Rick with his Good Moments. This solid second album might well not have happened if Les Bons Moments hadn’t insisted with Rick (Éric Blanchard), a guy from Baie-Comeau very outside of the industry. The dream of endisquer having been realized in 2020, at 50, as a gift to himself, why continue? It turns out that it feels really good, it holds up and it sings itself, this music. “It’s not time to retire / You have to drill my Rick”, he sums up in the intro song. Almost resigned. “Magalie Lépine-Blondeau at Everybody’s talking about it / There’s Toronto who just scored / Legault reassures us on the Téléjournal / Ricardo makes us his pie”, he describes in Down Underground. Might as well make (good) music.
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