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20:00 | Baden Baden (France) |
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Baden Baden. This is a name that does not really sound like English pop and/or French band. And yet… this is actually possible to have the name of a German spa… and make pop music sound like no one else. The French trio started the project in 2008 with influences coming from bands like Radiohead, Grizzly Bear or Grandaddy. In 2012, Baden Baden released Coline, a first album where English/French lyrics were mixed together with British melodies, like in the song "Anyone". In 2015, Baden Baden is back with Mille éclairs, the brand new album. And if the band has kept its typical British pop sound by giving the mix to Barny Barnicott (who previously worked with Arctic Monkeys, Editors, Kasabian), they also have chosen exclusively French lyrics this time. Mille éclairs dives the listener into a more consistent and more compact record. One with an insidious attraction and a poisonous addiction. In interview to bedroomdisco.de Baden Baden said about their influences: "This can be French songwriters (Les innocents, Souchon), as well as more indie stuff (Girls in Hawai, Death Cab For Cutie, Karkwa). Baden Baden must be a blend of those, but it’s rather more people who tell us what influences our music makes them think of, as for Alain Souchon. We first listened to him because we were told that our songs sometimes could sound alike. And we actually liked his songs." And about their visit in city Baden Baden guys said that they've never been there. "We just keep imagining it. What interested us was the sonority, more than the town itself or its history. It was like rethinking the very first meaning of a word and giving it a new one. We often are asked if there is any reference to De Gaulle for instance, or to the events of 1968. But we absolutely never thought about that. A true story is that my father actually lived there as he was a kid, right after the war, so this name did mean something for me. My father talks about those times passionately and he remembers nothing of the complex post-war period which no kid would understand, but just magnified memories of his childhood. So, he gave me a nostalgic, dreamlike and childish vision of this town. Visiting it now might even be disappointing."
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