the third surrealist post-punk album by the Astereotypie collective

No guy looks like Brad Pitt in Drôme, according to Astereotypie. This project, conceived as a writing workshop in a medico-educational institute (IME) for people with autism, has gradually turned into a rock band made up of five autistic authors, four of whom sing their own lyrics.

Claire Ottaway, Yohann GoetzmanAurelian LobjoitStanislas Carmont and Felix Giubergia put reality to the grinder to express their anger and their anxieties with ever more surreal and sincere texts. In this third album released on April 29, Stanislas, fascinated by politicians, recounts with the phrasing of a tribune his love story with a 20 euro note. “It’s a way to cheer me up, because I’m a little disappointed that I never had a romantic relationship with a real girl”he confides.

But Astereotypie is not a therapy, according to its members, it’s a rock band, in search of adrenaline and communion with its audience: “Every time I perform on stage I am very happyexplains Stanislas. I like that the public has a positive view of me, I manage to show that I am an artist like the others.”

To accompany them, four musicians have been trying for ten years to follow the energy released by the four singers on the guitar. But Astereotypie was not initially supposed to become a band, and even less a rock band, says their guitarist and former educator Christophe Lhuillier: “The very first concert we gave was at the Salon des Associations in Bourg-la-Reine, it was a workshop restitution. We were in a large room, there was just a loudspeaker for the guitar and the only audience was a lady pushing her mother in a wheelchair. We also had completely acoustic music to encourage understanding of the texts, but Yohann, at the microphone, was Johnny Halliday at the Parc des Princes in 1992: he was rolling on the ground; he was yelling ‘Good evening!'”

From that day on, one thing became obvious to Christophe Lhuillier: the instruments overheated, got carried away, for a post-punk, alternative rock and sometimes even almost trap-music result. “It’s intuitiveexplains Arthur Gillette, guitarist-bassist of the group. We don’t try to think about what style we’re going to do, we have the instruments we know how to play and what comes out is what really serves to magnify their great lyrics.”

And too bad if this intuitiveness takes Stanislas away from his usual musical references, he who listens to Patrick Fiori, Patrick Bruel or even Florent Pagny. Thanks to this furious amalgam, Astereotypie has found an identity and a legitimacy which has earned it an invitation, alongside Flavien Berger in particular, to the 10th anniversary of the Gaité lyrique in Paris, on May 20th.