”I believe (our music) displays this time and our era,” says singer Rémi Gauvin, who welcomes the band’s comparability to Beau Dommage.
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On a Friday evening in early November, Remark Debord had been enjoying in entrance of a sold-out Membership Soda and it felt like an actual second for the critically acclaimed Montreal rock band.
“It was a turning level,” mentioned Rémi Gauvin, singer, guitarist and essential songwriter with Remark Debord, in a latest interview on the noisy Bruno Sports activities Bar on Beaubien St. E. “It was very touching. It was emotional. It was large love. That was rather a lot to obtain.”
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The gig was the Montreal launch occasion for his or her second album, Monde autour, which had come out in September, and it was their greatest live performance because the finish of the pandemic. The response from the largely 20something crowd that evening at Membership Soda was downright ecstatic and the sense was Remark Debord had arrived.
It was a love-in and Gauvin and his band-mates had been trying actual completely satisfied soaking it up. The most recent album doesn’t stray that far stylistically from their self-titled 2020 debut assortment — each function a extremely authentic mixture of folky singer-songwriter fare, extra upbeat nearly disco numbers, and Stonesy rock tunes, all held collectively by Gauvin’s distinctive vocals and his penchant for memorable, generally humorous lyrics that replicate the best way francos actually communicate on the streets of Montreal.
In live performance, they add one other layer with longer jam-band takes on the songs, with loads of room for soloing. The opposite members are Karolane Carbonneau on guitar and vocals; Olivier Cousineau, drums and vocals; Étienne Dextraze-Monast, bass, vocals; Willis Satisfaction, keyboards, vocals; Alex Guimond, vocals; and Lisandre Bourdages, percussion, vocals.
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“I believe (our music) displays this time and our era,” Gauvin mentioned. “We will take model from fairly properly every little thing we like as a result of music is so accessible. I believe we’re undoubtedly a jam band. We additionally put a whole lot of emphasis on the lyrics. Each time we begin with a track we attempt to discover an association that works with the track. Like with the final album, we thought the (COVID) confinement was getting harsh and it was getting lengthy. We wished to exit and return and dance with our associates. So we had been within the temper to do some disco and dance songs. However at the start of the method (of the second album) we had been into extra intimate songs, extra people, actually extra singer-songwriter. We’re not shy to do completely different kinds of music. Perhaps the hyperlink between all of that is that it’s largely natural music. It’s primarily stay music. However once we had been youngsters and in our early 20s, we listened to a whole lot of indie music.”
The 2 albums had been produced by Warren Spicer from Montreal indie band Vegetation and Animals, and Spicer performed with them on the Membership Soda present.
Provides Cousineau: “We’re a jam band that comes via the lens of a singer-songwriter.”
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Gauvin talks rather a lot on stage, typically type of rambling, typically type of humorous, and one story he advised that evening was how he’s typically ran into a few of their older followers on the merchandise desk after live shows and so they typically inform the band they remind them of legendary ’70s Québécois band Beau Dommage.
Gauvin says he’s nice with the comparability.
“We adore it, we love getting in comparison with such an iconic group as Beau Dommage,” Gauvin mentioned. “There’s undoubtedly one thing of a household vitality (that’s like Beau Dommage), like a household from Rosemont, that’s our vibe. I do know (Beau Dommage’s) Michel Rivard has listened to our music and favored it. Really, he wrote to me as soon as. I used to be amazed by that. I used to be so proud. I referred to as my mom and mentioned: ‘Michel Rivard wrote to me!’ I used to pay attention rather a lot to Michel Rivard, the Maudit Bonheur album and Un trou dans les nuages additionally. Each time we had been going to Maine with my household we’d take heed to (Rivard’s) Je voudrais voir la mer.”
Remark Debord aren’t topping the charts Beau Dommage model. They get some industrial radio play, numerous important buzz and it’s constructing steadily for them. Gauvin and Cousineau discuss how cool it’s to go throughout the province and in even the smallest most out-of-the-way locations, the halls are packed and everybody is aware of the phrases to the songs.
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“We’re in a snug place,” Cousineau mentioned. “I don’t suppose we’re the largest new-hype factor. It’s extra of a gradual, however regular factor.”
I say to them they’re type of someplace between the choice rock world and the extra mainstream radio world.
“We’re type of half and half,” Gauvin mentioned. “Half milk, half cream. We prefer to suppose our songs can attain a rock radio viewers.”
The largest songs on the radio for them up to now have been Blood pareil off the second album and Chalet and particularly the ultra-catchy Papier foil from the primary album.”
“They appear to love the disco vibes (of Papier foil),” Gauvin mentioned.
However perhaps the largest promoting level is Gauvin’s street-poetry lyrics.
“The best way you write is impressed by your day-to-day life and you’ve got these day-to-day expressions from Montreal,” Cousineau mentioned.
“It’s rather a lot about slang that my household or associates use,” Gauvin mentioned. “Once we’re speaking, I’ll take my telephone and write down expressions they use. And I’d put it in a track a year-and-a-half later. I see one thing artistic in expressions. I’d not have the ability to sing in worldwide French. There’s simply one thing bizarre about that.”
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