Each week, our journalists give you their opinion on three new musical releases recently released on QUB musique. To discover…
Good butter on your muffin
Anyone who fell in love with the fun single Lounge Chair (“Would you like someone to put butter on your muffin?”, sings Rhian Teasdale, one of the two girls behind this English duo), in 2021, had circled the release date of the first eponymous album by Wet Leg. Verdict: the enthusiasm will not run out of steam. Their mix of post-punk and 1990s-inspired alternative rock, which the duo sprinkles with its singular humor, would have made them instant world stars in the days when a music video playing on repeat at MTV launched careers. Difficult to erase from our brain the melodies of Being In Love, Angelica Where WetDream once you’ve heard them once. This is the mark of very good albums. (Cedric Belanger)
Wet Leg ★★★★
► An album by Wet Leg
The best of both worlds
For some, Ghost is too commercial and not heavy enough. We would like a little more heaviness. On Imperathe Swedish group offers an album that will greatly appeal to fans of metal and hard rock of the 80s and 90s. Tobias Forge and his band offer sounds that are melodic, accessible and with guitars that scratch like on the titles Watcher in the Sky and Hunter’s Moon. Ghost demonstrates a great audacity with the symphonic arrangements in Dominion and at the start of twentiesthe heaviest track on the album. Impera skilfully navigates between clean metal and slightly more brutal sounds. The production is impeccable and it sounds. A great success and an opus that is magnified over the listening. (Yves Leclerc)
Impera ★★★★
► A Ghost album
A second middle finger
You can count on David Jalbert to make sad songs happy. His seventh career album is the follow-up to his last album The middle finger published in March 2020, at the very beginning of the pandemic. Several of the 11 tracks on this album express concerns of the artist. The song On my wall is a way of denouncing – in a cheerful tone – the excesses on social networks, while The North wind allows him to reveal himself more intimately. Favorites for The New Orleans wharf on a background of ukulele and Let’s not cry anymore where a brass band cheerfully recounts the end of a love story. (Sarah-Emilie Nault)
The middle finger II ★★★★
► An album by David Jalbert