The Belgian group Dan San knows its classics and offers an album indie-pop timeless, elegant and melodious.
Dan San is an independent group from Liège, Belgium, which has earned a very good reputation since its foundation in 2005 around a duo of songwriters, Jérôme Magnée and Thomas Medard. But this is their second album Shelterreleased seven years ago, which brought them success, lots of shows and a few million streams online.
In recent years, the six members of the group have worked a lot on other projects on their own. They met for this Large lounge very elegant, which draws its inspiration as much from Nick Drake as from Simon & Garfunkel.
They thus offer twelve very melodious pieces – some do not hide their acquaintance with the Beatles, such as Hard Days Are Gone Or Dear Friends — and worked with care with director Yann Arnaud (Air, Syd Matters). There’s actually something very timeless about Large loungewhich resists trends and lets itself be listened to… as if we had already heard it.
That’s his main flaw too: nothing really sticks out and everything is in its place, because at Dan San, we know his classics — perhaps too well.
The fact remains that with its somewhat evanescent and melancholy atmosphere, its poetic texts which sometimes evoke inner dramas — 1994, Father, Mother —, pretty love songs — the joyful Midnight Call —, and its refined pop (The Unknown), Dan San offers a sophisticated and pleasant soundtrack, which can accompany us gently without making waves.
indie-pop
Large lounge
Dan San
Simone Records