Au Cinema Video from Chocolat Billy

Somehow I’ve broken into the French scene, and I get tons of really great stuff from all over, like Bordeaux’s Chocolat Billy, celebrating 20 years of work. The band is set to release Le Feu al Lac, an imaginative allusion to a lake on fire. For me, I love the pop sensibility being stretched to new boundaries in their latest single. The vocals have this light punctuated delivery, set up atop the prodding and pulsing of the synth work and samples beneath the mix; it’s catchy and bopping, yet seems otherworldly. And, as the song proceeds, you get this haunting figure offering up a few lines as the song draws to a close. The whole album drops on April 22nd via Kythibong.