Très content d'annoncer qu'Hohnen Ford fera la première partie de notre concert au Zenith le 7 novembre prochain, et des invités très spéciales qui se joindront à nous: Charlotte Cardin, November Ultra, Solann et plus encore! Billets dispo ici: www.bandsintown.com/e/106527624?affil_code=js_patr…
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Hey everyone! I'll be doing a reddit AMA on r/indieheads! Send me your questions :)
www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/1nuh8wv/patri…
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New album Uh Oh is out today! It’s that time again, we going to be sharing our album with the world. I think this was one of the most fun albums I've ever worked on and collaborations with people I have so much respect. I hope you enjoy this collection of moments that mean the world to me. This album is filled with conversations and meaningful collaborations.
Because of that, that's why you're going to have to put up with a giant 30 ft picture of me on the Spotify Canada billboard in Toronto. I want you to know none of us in this project take a moment for granted that we get to wake up in the morning and work on making music. Thank you so much for giving us that opportunity.
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11. Ça va Ft. Solann - “Ça va” a vraiment été inspirée par @Solann_zla et écrite avec elle. Durant la pandémie, je regardais toutes ces jeunes chanteuses qui m’époustouflaient sur Instagram. Solann est l’une des meilleures chanteuses françaises que j’ai entendue depuis longtemps, et ce n’est pas seulement parce qu’elle a une jolie voix, c’est la manière dont elle prononce ses mots. C’est ce qui rend une chanson francophone agréable ou pas : la façon dont on termine les mots.
Lorsque qu’on a écrit ces paroles, je lui ai dit : Je veux simplement que tu sois comme une Parisienne chiante qui déambule dans la rue en se fâchant contre tout le monde. Ahaha
Donc voici Ça va, j’espère que vous aimerez.
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‘Ça va’ was very much inspired by and written with Solann. During COVID, I was watching all of these young singers blow my mind making songs on Instagram. Solann is one of the best French singers I’ve heard in a long time, and it’s not just because her voice is nice, but also the way she lands her words. That’s what makes French songs listenable or not—the way they finish their words.
When we wrote these words, I told her, “I just want you to be like a shitty Parisian walking down the street, getting mad at everybody. So here is Ça va, hope you like it.
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10. Gordon in the Willows ft. Charlotte Cardin - I love working with Charlotte—crazy voice, super fun spirit, very-hard worker, very open. I wanted to write something that shows everybody how great she sings, and when I started writing this, I was like, “Oh, this is a good one because it's very hard to sing, but it's still very pretty,” and I wanted it have an old pagan-hymn kind of feeling, with a thin vale, a bit of an electric snow on top. So when Charlotte heard, it she was really excited so we finished the words together and it was epic to record, cause that's just one live voice take. It took only 3 tries.
Gordon is the name of my very first piano. When I used to play piano as a kid, I was convinced that the piano was playing and I wasn't.
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9. House on Fire - House on Fire is a track that I’m very proud of because for years I had watched @marthawainwright2771 sing and was always in such a force and power. I’m such a soft singer that I was so inspired to be able to sing beside her and her strength. It was a real experience to work with Martha and one I’ll never forget.
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8. Postcards ft. Hohnen Ford
Hohnen is one of my favourite singers in the world—as soon as I hear her voice, I lose my mind. She's a British singer with a great wit in her music. I love how she writes. She's absolutely astonishing. When we met, we felt like old friends. Originally, I had asked my very good friend Brad Barr to come play piano on and over the years. There are some friends that are there in the worst case scenarios, that when you see them it's like you saw each other yesterday even if it's been months. So the song is about that, it was very inspired by the album Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel because that song is about 1 minute long and it's one of my favorite songs of all time. It has kept me company many times so I wanted to make a song that would keep people company like that song kept me company. Writing words with Hohnen was very very easy and having the guitar work of Brad Barr, it can't get better when he needed to be touching and profound and also he's one of those friends.
Last surprise - Hohnen is going to open for the 2025 EU and UK tour
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7. Ami Imaginaire - J'ai toujours aimé le mélange de la langue française et de l'ostinato des synthés. Et pendant la création de cette chanson, il est devenu évident que la chanson sonnait bien mieux en français. Une fois que c'était clair, je me suis dit que j'allais appeler Klô Pelgag. Si vous ne connaissez pas Klô, c'est comme si elle réunissait en une seule artiste tout ce que je préfère dans la culture franco-québécoise. Elle est tellement libre, que ce soit dans ses costumes, ses scénographies et bien plus encore. C'est une pianiste et une chanteuse incroyablement talentueuse, tant sur le plan technique que du côté émotionnel. Et elle a les meilleures interactions au monde entre les chansons, tellement drôle. Donc, s'il y a un imaginaire que vous voulez, c'est elle qui gagne. Nous avons réalisé un clip épique pour celui-ci avec une réalisatrice québécoise extrêmement talentueuse, Ariane Louis-Seize, qui a réalisé mon film préféré depuis des années, Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant.
I always love the mix of the French language and synths ostinato.
And while making this song it was quickly apparent the song sounded way better in French. Once that was clear, I was like I'm calling Klô Pelgag for sure. If you don't know Klô, she is like taking all my favorite things about the French Quebec culture is one artist. She is so wildly free from her costumes to stage designs and more. She is an amazingly talented pianist and singer, both technically and touching. And she has the best between song stage banter in the world, so funny. So if there is going to be an imaginary that you want, she wins. We made an epic music video for this one with an extremely talented Quebec director Ariane Louis-Seize who made my favorite film in years called Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant.
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6. Lonely Lights ft. La Force
For the next song, I invited my dear friend La force because I thought this was one of the more personal songs on record and I've been singing with her for many years now. She feels like my sister and she's also fantastic. I talked about the song last week, It’s a song that I wrote based on two different moments. A couple years ago during my mom's funeral, since it was during the winter, it was too cold to bury her in the ground. So we had to leave her outside in her coffin in the snow, and just thought it was two difficult to leave her there so I stayed there for a long time. And that memory stayed with me for a long time. Often when I'm writing songs, there are memories I keep for a while. The second part is written many years later and there was this moment when they abstractly put my picture in Times Square and I thought it would be really funny at 4:00 in the morning when nobody's there and I’m like 40 feet tall all by myself in Times Square. Must be absurd and kind of lonely in a funny way. Sometimes different stories in my life collide in funny ways in my lyrics.
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5. Uh Oh - I met Charlotte Oleena (her project is Sea Oleena) because she would make the coffee at the coffee shop and we became friends. And then when I heard her voice, I realized she was one of my favorite singers in the world. She’s on lots of records, her voice is incredible. The other thing I'll say is that most of these lyrics were written 15 years ago and the one about the cables and wires makes me laugh because I used to drive everybody crazy talking about AI back then so another reason why this song works 15 years later is that the lyrics came to fruition. The title Uh Oh and why it is the record was that for the last 6 or 7 years every time you open the newspaper, it's like forever ‘Uh Oh’. I thought it was a good title for the album because of that.
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New album Uh Oh out September 26th! Pre-Save: found.ee/pw-uhoh
26 March 2012