Marlon Magnée

After fifteen years touring the world with La Femme, the group he co-founded (numerous gold records, a Victoire de la Musique award, over 600M streams, over 400k albums sold) and took to the biggest stages in France and abroad (Accor Arena, Zéniths, Glastonbury, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza Chicago, Osheaga Montreal…), Marlon now returns solo with a first album that reconnects him with his earliest passions.

It carries his taste for unexpected crossovers and his singular style: a blend of rockabilly, punk, cold wave and psychedelic psychobilly.

The tracks, in French but also in English, rest on sixties guitars, an eighties "orgy of synths", powerful drum machines, analogue delays and a deliberately raw energy.

His influences run through the whole album: The Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Motörhead, The Cure, The Stray Cats, JJ Cale, the Nuggets compilations, but also French-speaking figures such as Gainsbourg, Les Rita Mitsouko, Métal Urbain, Plastic Bertrand and Marc Charlan.

The result is a fast, nervous record (tempos up to 240 bpm), at times radical, conceived "for those whose hearts are bleeding and who are eager to fight".

Co-produced with Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao, Peaches) at the legendary Ferber studio, the album marks a genuine return to the roots for Marlon and forcefully heralds the return of rock to today's musical landscape.