Tag: Tours France

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: French Artist Comett Releases a Plaintive and Yearning Single

Alexandre Canale Parola is a Tours, France-born, Paris-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and creative mastermind behind the solo, indie rock recording project Comett. Founded back in 2005, Parola has released four full-length albums and a handful of singles and EPs with Comett, including last year’s The Ghost Inside Me, which amassed over 500,000 streams.

Parola begins the new year with “Peace of Mind,” the first bit of new material since The Ghost Inside Me‘s release. Written during pandemic-related lockdowns, “Peace of Mind” reveals a subtle sonic shift. While still centered around shimming and looping guitar, seemingly influenced by Radiohead, the song features atmospheric synths paired with decidedly Latin rhythms.

Interestingly, at the song’s core is a world-weary narrator’s desire to achieve the titular peace of mind in a mad, mad, mad world. While that may seem lucky and rare, it’s a desire and hope many of us are desperately clinging to during these desperate times.

Video by William Ruben Helms

New Video: Lucas Minier-directed Visual for Tastycool’s “Velvet” Follows the Daily Life of a Young Artist

Tastycool is an emerging Angoulême, France-based indie electro pop duo — Victor Barougier and Tom Meyronnin — that specializes in a sound that draws from house music, funk, nu disco and electro pop. The duo’s latest EP, Luved is slated for a May 8, 2020 release, and the EP’s latest single “Velvet” is a summery club banger. Centered around shimmering synth arpeggios, finger snaps, insistently thumping beats, a sinuous bass line, a sultry saxophone solo, an infectious hook and ethereally sung lyrics in French, the track brings Daft Punk, Air, Phoenix, and Polo & Pan to mind — but while possessing a swooning sensitivity. Interestingly, the song is written for a local artist Ykoner, who through his art uncovers his once-hidden sensitivity. 

Directed by Lucas Minier, and shot in Tours, France, the recently released video for “Velvet,” continues their ongoing collaboration with the director while following a young graffiti artist — in this case, Ykoner himself — through his daily routine. As the duo mention in press notes, as a result of the quarantines across the globe, Minier and the duo had to rethink the filming of the video, discreetly going through Tours, stealing shots when they could until they were able to finish.