Tag: Entrée Libre

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New Video: Entrée Libre Shares Krautrock-like MedItation on Fame “Je voudrais que tout brûle”

Paris-based duo Entrée Libre formed back in 2019 and derives its name from the first letters of the childhood friends’ first names. The pair quickly developed a joyful, spontaneous and hook-driven pop sound, which for the duo — and in turn, their listeners — has served as an escape from our ongoing strange and uncertain moment.

The French duo’s debut EP, last year’s Avant-Premiére featured three singles I managed to write about on this site:

  • “Aller Simple,” a dance floor friendly track that’s one-part 80s New Order, one- part JOVM mainstays DBFC, one-part Daft Punk 

  • “Corps à corps,” a hook-driven,  LCD Soundsystem-like bop that’s perhaps even more danceable than its immediate predecessor.

  • “Pixel” is a breezy yet wistful bop centered around glistening synth arpeggios, a chugging motorik groove, skittering beats paired with plaintive harmonies that brought Trans Europe Express-era Kraftwerk and La Femme to mind

The duo’s sophomore EP Mémoire de formes is slated for release this year. The EP’s first single “Je voudrais que tout brûle” is a swaggering and decidedly krautrock inspired song built around a relentless motorik groove, shimmering synth arpeggios and angular bursts of guitar paired with the duo’s unerring knack for catchy hooks. While sonically bringing DBFC to mind, “Je voudrais que tout brûlée” as the duo explains “deals with the wild and absurd quest for success, and the desire to be heard.”

Directed by Leïla Macaire, the accompanying video features the duo dreaming — and then realizing some of their wildest dreams of fame and attention to delirious and hilarious effect.

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Lyric Video: Entrée Libre Shares a Wistful New Single

Formed back in 2019. Parisian indie electro pop duo Entrée Libre consists of two childhood friends, who derived the project’s name from the first letter of their first names. Sonically, the pair have developed joyful, spontaneous and hook driven pop, which for the band has served as an escape from our strange and uncertain moment.

Entrée Libre’s debut EP Avant-Premiére officially dropped yesterday. The EP features previously released singles “Dehors,” “Aller Simple,” a dance floor friendly track that’s one-part 80s New Order, one- part JOVM mainstays DBFC, one-part Daft Punk and “Corps à corps,” a hook-driven, LCD Soundsystem-like bop that’s perhaps even more danceable than its immediate predecessor.

Avant-Premiére‘s fourth and latest single “Pixel” is a breezy yet wistful bop centered around glistening synth arpeggios, a chugging motorik groove, skittering beats paired with plaintive harmonies. The end result is a song that, to my ears, recalls Trans Europe Express-era Kraftwerk and fellow countrymen DBFC and La Femme.

The accompanying lyric video features the duo in an empty theater changing seats while a maintenance person cleans up. 

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Lyric Video: Entrée Libre Shares a Funky Dance Punk Bop

I’m in Baltimore for a couple of days to visit family, hang out and to catch a show. The posts will be a bit intermittent until my return — but in the meantime . . .

Formed back in 2019. Parisian indie electro pop duo Entrée Libre consists of two childhood friends, who derived the project’s name from the first letter of their first names. Sonically, the pair have developed joyful, spontaneous and hook driven pop, which for the band has served as an escape from the our strange and uncertain moment.

Entrée Libre’s debut EP Avant-Premiére is slated for a May 13, 2022 release. The EP will feature previously released singles “L’Air du temps,” “Dehors” and “Aller Simple,” a dance floor friendly track that’s one-part 80s New Order, one- part JOVM mainstays DBFC, one-part Daft Punk.

“Corps à corps,” Avant-Premiére‘s fourth and latest single is another dance floor friendly bop — but this time more along the lines of LCD Soundsystem: angular bursts of funk guitar, sinuous bass lines, buzzing bass synths, relentless four-on-the-floor and copious cowbell are placed within a hook-driven song structure. Fittingly for a danceable song, the song’s French’s lyrics detail the movements of bodies approaching and then repelling each seemingly in an off-kilter fashion.

The accompanying lyric video features the duo in an empty theater changing seats while a maintenance person cleans up.

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New Video: Paris-based Electro Pop Duo Entrée Libre Releases a Summery, Club Friendly Ode to Travel

Formed back in 2019. Parisian indie electro pop duo Entrée Libre consists of two childhood friends, who derived the project’s name from the first letter of their first names. Sonically, the pair have developed joyful, spontaneous and hook driven pop. which for the duo served as an escape from the our strange and uncertain moment.

Entrée Libre’s debut EP is slated for release in 2022 . The forthcoming EP will feature previously released singles “L’Air du temps,” “Dehors,” and its third and latest single, the funky “Aller Simple.” Centered around a slick, dance floor friendly production featuring twinkling and arpeggiated synths, squiggling Nile Rodgers-like funk guitar, thumping beats, a propulsive disco-tinged bass line, and an infectious shout-along worthy hook, “Aller Simple” is one-part 80s New Order, one- part JOVM mainstays DBFC, one-part Daft Punk. And at its core is the very human desire to escape and start over — or just to go somewhere for a necessary reset.

Directed by frequent visual collaborator Leila Macaire, the recently released video is a playful and summery blast, that follows the pair and their friends as they travel and goof off — in much warmer climes. It makes me long for travel and new adventures. Soon, I hope. Soon.