Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)

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Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)
Studio album by Noir Désir

Publication
(s)

January 10, 1989

Label (s) Barclay (FR)

Genre (s)

Rock music

Title (number)

11

running time

36:13 min.

production

Ian Broudie

chronology
Où veux-tu qu'je r'garde?
(1987) 		Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) Du ciment sous les plaines
(1991)

Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) (German: Would you like to return the soul (to the one to whom it belongs) ) is the second studio album by the French rock band Noir Désir . The 1989 album with its melancholy, elaborate lyrics made Noir Désir known to a wider audience, not least thanks to the title Aux sombres héros de l'amer .

Track list

  1. À l'arrière des taxis 3:10
  2. Aux sombres héros de l'amer 2:58
  3. Le Fleuve 3:48
  4. What I Need 3:24
  5. Apprends à dormir 3:02
  6. Sweet Mary 2:01
  7. La Chaleur 3:39
  8. Les Écorchés 4:09
  9. Joey I 3:00
  10. Joey II 2:27
  11. The Wound 4:35

Emergence

The album was recorded in late 1988 at IP Studios in Brussels . It was produced by the British Ian Broudie, who had already worked with Echo and the Bunnymen . His extreme perfectionism led to heated arguments between him and the band's drummer, Denis Barthe , while working on the album . This album is to be regarded as the group's first real album, as its predecessor Où veux-tu qu'je r'garde? contained no more than six titles.

The overall mood of the album is rather heavy-blooded, with calm tracks ( Le Fleuve, Sweet Mary, Joey, The Wound ) and energetic tracks ( À l'arrière des taxis, What I Need, La Chaleur, Les Écorchés ) evenly distributed. The lyrics are very poetic and downright literary. Bertrand Cantat's interest in poetry is very clear in the texts, for example the mention of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and his great love Lilja Brik in À l'arrière des taxis , or Lautréamonts in Les Écorchés . The violinist François Boirie took part in the recordings of the songs Le Fleuve , What I Need and The Wound .

The single Aux sombres héros de l'amer reached number 31 in the French single charts and contributed significantly to the growing popularity of Noir Désirs, which worried the group very much, as the song is not characteristic of the album. In addition, the band members feared that the song would be misunderstood as a seafaring song, when it was actually intended as a parable for the path that a person has to go in life. Therefore, the group then decided not to continue playing the song on public appearances.

Success of the album

The album stayed in the French album charts for 21 weeks, where it rose to number 20. It was awarded a gold record.

In February 2010 the French edition of the music magazine Rolling Stone declared the album the tenth best French rock album. Anthony Triaureau of Music Story , who gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, said the themes dealt with in the album are impressive because of their melancholy, with the lyrics being very poetic and far removed from political criticism. The album is also a fine mixture of melodic finesse and the severity of rock. For the French website Forces parallèles , which gives the album 4 out of 5 stars, the album is divided into "wild, rocky songs on the one hand and pieces that amaze with their beauty on the other". In addition, it is characterized by a very gloomy mood, which is presented in a way that one cannot help but admire the presented situations, the feelings of pain, hatred and sadness. Alex Garcia from Allmusic gives the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and says that this is at the same time probably (until then) the best and strangest album Noir Désirs, which unites many different genres. There are hectic pieces, haunting melodies and lyrics as well as bursts of enormous energy.

In May 1989, the group received the Bus d'acier for this album .

Chart placements

FranceFrance France BelgiumBelgium Belgium SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland ItalyItaly Italy
20th 33 - -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent Laufer: Noir Désir de A à Z , Express Éditions, 2005, p. 16
  2. ↑ Vincent Laufer: Noir Désir de A à Z , Express Éditions, 2005, pp. 101-103
  3. ↑ Vincent Laufer: Noir Désir de A à Z , Express Éditions, 2005, pp. 73–74
  4. ↑ Vincent Laufer: Noir Désir de A à Z , Express Éditions, 2005, p. 14
  5. ↑ Vincent Laufer: Noir Désir de A à Z , Express Éditions, 2005, pp. 10-11
  6. ↑ Anthony Triaureau, Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) Critique. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 25, 2013 (French).
  7. ↑ Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) Chronique Forces parallèles. Retrieved June 25, 2013 (French).
  8. ↑ Alex Garcia, Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) Review, Allmusic. Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Vincent Laufer: Noir Désir de A à Z , Express Éditions, 2005, p. 17

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