the bright and retro return of the pop singer

Eleven years since he last set foot on the stage at La Cigale. In 2012, he came out of the woods with his monotone mini-hit “La Forêt”. After an acclaimed first album, Lescop took a few detours, including a dive into funk with his group Serpent, while trying his hand at cinema and theater.

After filling La Cigale, Lescop has continued his tour throughout France since March to bring out the vintage and poetic pop of Dream gone. This new album with minimalist sounds and delicate duets has been awaited since the release of the previous one, Echoalmost eight years ago.

It’s a dark brunette who stepped onto the stage of La Cigale a few days ago, lulled by the green strobes and the sound of the keyboards, cold wave to perfection. Closed and angular face, jacket with shoulder pads on a slender silhouette, he could be the seventh member of The Addams Family. But when he grabs the microphone, the room suddenly warms up. Perhaps the Lescop signature: cold pop for words of love whispered like a little brother of Daho.

Addictions and freedom

Mathieu Peudupin returns this year with his Dream gone, a very personal record filled with melancholy. Like the end of a dream that lasted almost ten years, it tells of toxic relationships, addictions and freedom.

On the album cover, he is sitting on the trailer of a dusty old red Mercedes. The dreams have flown by, but the party is not over yet. Lescop has not deviated from his route and still makes us dance. An imposing bass, minimalist drum machines, old synths. A pop rock still faithful to the synthetic aesthetic of the 1980s.

The Cure chanted that the boys don’t cry. Those of Lescop have difficulty “ignore the tears you see in their big eyes.” In The boys, a single with poetic and frank writing, the singer questions the masculine ideal, virile construction and gender norms. On a tune that almost evokes Look for the boy by Taxi Girl, normal for a Daniel Darc worshipper: a story of tender thugs, boys who are hard and fragile at the same time.

And a special mention to her three 100% female collaborations which punctuate the album. Izia to sing about the breakup of love (Most of the time), Ringer and Lavoine style of a How beautiful are you?. But also Halo Maud (The Butterfly Woman) and Laure Cahen (Scared by the night). Who knows, maybe one of them will join the singer on a date of his tour. Guaranteed softness.

Lescop in concert, April 12 in Grenoble, April 13 in Toulon, April 19 in Brest and June 12 in La Rochelle.