Dodudaboum - L'espoir N'est Pas Mort LP

Hope is not dead. Do we need an album to remind us of that? Yes, most certainly. That's the message of Dodudaboum's new album. Here, it's about rediscovering one's soul, untainted by the grime of harsh reality, and letting oneself be carried away by waves of punk and synth, like a reusable cup filled with local beer hurled in the face of a joyful, bewildered audience. There's also that other hope, crucial and fleeting, of total liberation, through music that is as profound as it is light, epic and fun, brimming with endorphins. At the helm of this album, as unclassifiable as it is catchy, is Dorian Verdier, a prominent, though often discreet, member of the international underground scene. His journey, from the experimental hip hop of the trio Le Pingouin to the indie choir of Crane Angels and the garage punk storm, speaks volumes about his versatility and his love of risk. After two decades in collective projects, Dorian returns with a solo project, the ideal formula for expressing himself in the simplest and most personal way possible. Dodudaboum thus offers a kind of all-you-can-eat buffet, surprising and always focused on immediate pleasure, even if some tracks take us into more nostalgic, even melancholic, moods. A distant cousin of a retro-gaming Vladimir Cosma, or a Dan Deacon still capable of playing in smoky basements, Dodudaboum never confines himself to a formula. His extrasensory musical openness has been nourished as much by the hip-hop of Cannibal Ox as by the psychedelic beauty of Panda Bear. A project tailored for the stage, far from the new androids of ultra-virtualized electronic music, Dorian has filled his pieces with the life that inhabits him, with a taste for celebration and catharsis: foot to the floor, head in the stars and the rest of the body busy taking us on unique electronic pop epics.