Peter Peter

"Il ressuscite la synth-pop nineties avec classe et intensité, en nous faisant traverser des mondes différents"

He has allowed himself a dive without a net. Abrasive and percussive, frontal and combining in the same momentum crushed beats, vocals irrigated with a wild sensibility and panache. From troubled oscillations to deep pulsations, Peter Peter probes the forces of the sonic web, imposing the power of melody with beats per minute without totally turning away from the song format. Ether, his fifth album, is an immersive experience at its most intense.

During the pandemic-disturbed release of Super Comédie, his previous eighties-style synth-vapor record, Peter Peter was already thinking about the next chapter. He had two options in mind: to continue in the glorious lineage of continuity in the company of his guitar, his instrument of choice, or to free himself completely for the first time and open wide the doors to a radicalism, to a certain electro-dance grandeur that had long frightened him. In the end, he opts for the latter. Synthesizers, piano, programming and sequences are the order of the day. This time around, he set himself constraints, such as not using any musicians, only letting Guillaume Guilbault (Constance, Duu, KROY), co-producer of the tracks, in at the end.

In the end, we realize that Peter Peter, without abandoning his obsessive penchant for melancholy and his vocation to comfort lonely or flayed souls, has managed to reinvent his own musical language. With the possible exception of 20 k d'heures de solitude, which he describes as his "most reassuring song", this homebody frequently surfs on the heritage of an exciting English techno scene.