Les Îles [multisubs] (2017)

Les Insus - Live (2017) {3 CD Set, Parlophone - 0190295802677}
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© 2017 ABKR / Parlophone / Warner Music France | 0190295802677
Rock / France

Extensive souvenir of the 2016 and 2017 reunion tour by Les Insus, aka Jean-Louis Aubert (guitar, vocals), Louis Bertignac (guitar, vocals) and Richard Kolinka (drums), with bass player Aleksander Angelov standing in for original member Corine Marienneau. Had she been there, the band simply would've been called Téléphone, but there's still a lot of bad blood between her and the rest of the band. The others had the good grace not to use the original band name to mark her absence. The first two discs feature a full show recorded at the L'AccorHotels Arena in Paris, which captures the atmosphere of the tour very well, while disc 3 was recorded at the Trabendo club and features many lesser known deep cuts and rarities.

A year after Les Paul's death, Jeff Beck saluted the guitar pioneer by staging a rousing tribute show to the great man at Paul’s regular stomping ground, the Iridium Jazz Club. Backed by his current running mates the Imelda May Band, Beck enlisted some heavy-hitters for help – Brian Setzer comes in for the rock & roll, Trombone Shorty for the jazz, Gary U.S. Bonds sings some oldies – all the better to get the party started. Despite its title, Rock 'N' Roll Party skews ever so slightly to the old-fashioned swing and standards that were Paul's specialty and with the notable exception of tightly wound versions of “The Train Kept A Rollin’” and “Twenty Flight Rock,” even the rockers feel closer to jump blues than rockabilly. And that’s fine: a tribute to Les Paul's music shouldn’t be greasy, it should be a jumping, joyous blast of nostalgia, which is precisely what this party is.

Dark dreamweavers Les Discrets return with "Predateurs", their first full-length album in five years. Ever-evolving, the sound of Les Discrets in 2017 takes a stylistic shift which sees the band's dreamy shoegaze and metallic tinged post-rock turn into dark indie rock with electronic chill while incorporating inspiration from trip-hop and 70's film soundtracks. Described as 'the soundtrack of a slow film noir happening in a train where the journey leads the auditor to several places seen from the windows', "Prédateurs" is a cinematographic, urban album made of steel, concrete, snow and electricity. Easy on the ears, "Prédateurs" accessibility is shaped by interpreting the familiar music and melodies of Les Discrets with new instruments, approach and ambition…